My current body of work unfolds as a series of sculptural ceramic baskets: forms shaped in response to the lived, layered experience of mothering. It is an experience that stretches, holds, and at times consumes; a vessel that I both inhabit and am remade by. These works emerge from that space of simultaneity, of containment and overflow, of tenderness and erasure, of being filled and emptied all at once.

I earned my BFA from UT Austin, where I studied metal casting and mixed media, drawn early on to process, transformation, and the language of form. Clay, however, has been a constant companion - present in fragments throughout my life since childhood.

Now, in the rhythm of my studio practice, clay becomes both anchor and aperture. It offers a counterpoint to the all-encompassing nature of motherhood; a space where I can locate myself again, not in opposition to it, but alongside it. Through making, I gather something back: a sense of autonomy, of inquiry, of breath. It is here, in the shaping of these vessels, that I find another kind of holding… one that sustains me