Land and water are life sustaining forces.

The ecological consequences and degrading effects of human and industrial activity onto land is undeniable, my work weaves research, restoration, responsibility, and embodied material visualization to imagine contested realities, pasts, and futures.

My work lies in the tension between contradictory materials: natural and mechanical. I parallel these organic and industrial materials as representative of a vibrant world threatened by global industries. I am Inspired by small details and large fragments of the natural world throughout a spiraling timescape. Through sculptural work I explore vast scales, tensions, and pressures through form and visual representations of landscapes.

Clay is central to this inquiry: a material born of the earth, carrying an ancient history of function, beauty, and memory. It returns me to the land. Its surfaces hold traces of erosion, sedimentation, heat, pressure, and waterways: marks formed beyond my control. On the surfaces of my forms, I let water reclaim the material by letting it erode crevices and planes. As a result, I approach all creation as material co-collaboration; I insist on multi-material and multispecies relationship, affirming the constant presence of non-human animate force.

I’m called to contextualize my work with critical historical research. There is an ongoing Western, and global process of violent extraction and colonialism forced upon lands and waters, which are animate entities marked within Western imaginations by a praxis of utilitarian use and capital gain rather than affirming their existence and systems of reciprocity.