I have worked in many different mediums, but working with ceramics feels very natural. I love the meditative nature of throwing on the wheel and the ability to design the function and experience of everyday objects. I have been interested in ceramics from a young age. I attended a pottery camp as a child and loved everything about it. After returning to pottery as an adult I was hooked again. I have always enjoyed taking apart objects and reconstructing them, but now I am able to study the object and make a mug, vase, or plate from scratch.
My grandmother (Bubbe Geri) taught me how to draw trees when I was young. She is an artist, now ninety nine, who would paint the radiator, an aardvark, or a self portrait. She surrounded herself with beautiful and unusual objects from salad tongs to teacups to blankets to the doorstop. Her obsession with design and the modern aesthetic had an intense influence on my mom and myself.
My work is about juxtaposition, form and function, modern and ancient, and natural and manmade. I am inspired by the shape of a leaf or a crack in the cement, but I use technology and tools to create an object. I love to experiment with pattern, texture, and shape, while still keeping the functionality of a piece at the forefront. I keep my artistic vision, exploring the relationship between the visual and tactile, yet ultimately functional, held in your hand and used over and over again.
