CONCEPT

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Amidst the uncertainty of the pandemic, I began ruminating on beacons, searching for something to guide me forward through the endless times. While my work is often thoroughly planned, sketched, and honed before I enter the studio, my only goal became touching clay. I made tiny nothings that would normally become scrap. As I put them together, a lamp emerged, fashioned from the discarded remnants of clay. The discarded bits of that piece would be the catalyst for the next piece. The clay transformed into a mother dough, preserving a trace of creative DNA from every previous piece.

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With no time for deliberation, I allowed the clay to take on a life of its own, shaping into a series of luminous sculptures. This project became a celebration of process, the joy of experimentation, and the surrender of preconceived notions.

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Lineage also evokes another narrative, the long history of AFAB (assigned female at birth) creative tinkerers in my family. I inherited an obsession with craft, an insatiable curiosity, and a willingness to explore. This legacy instilled in me a profound resistance to the confines of expertise, embracing instead the embodiment of the eternal amateur, akin to the Fool in tarot. Like the Fool, I began embracing the unknown, oblivious to failure, at ease with discomfort, and open to the abundance risk has to offer.