My work explores transformation through the intelligence of materials and the traces of human touch. Gesture and handwork are central to my process, creating a dialogue between embodied experience and the vast timescales embedded within telluric materials formed over geologic time.

Working primarily with locally harvested clay from Long Island and Central New York, two landscapes between which my life and practice are divided, I investigate the histories carried within in the earth. Clay functions not only as a sculptural medium but also as a record of place: porous, absorptive, and capable of filtering, containing, and preserving evidence of ecological and cultural systems. Through ceramic water filters, casts of erosion topographies, clay prints, and soil chromatograms, I explore the conceptual and aesthetic possibilities of materials that reveal relationships between land, water, and community.

My practice is informed by a sustained engagement with both art and science. Influenced by geology and chemistry, I approach making as a process of inquiry in which observation, experimentation, and intuition coexist. This tension between the handmade and the manufactured, the organic and the geometric, guides the development of form and structure throughout my work.

While I often establish parameters to guide the development of a series, intuition remains essential in shaping texture, form, scale, and color. I am interested in sculpture’s capacity to unfold through movement and encounter. Never fully apprehended from a single viewpoint, works require the viewer’s physical presence, activating a space between familiarity and mystery. Through this experience, I hope to evoke curiosity, wonder, and a deeper awareness of our connection to the material world.