I feel the status of clay as a populist material, with utilitarian and industrial applications, makes it an ideal media for fostering dialogue between the humanities and sciences.  To the contemporary artist, ceramics has the potential to creatively combine a personal vision with historical and social issues that are understood by a broad audience.  Philosophically, clay resembles the human mind as an essentially formless and malleable media that can continually adapt to new paradigms, technologies, and concepts.  My artwork incorporates these ideas, referencing themes of tactility, sensation, and perception, in order to better understand and communicate the human condition.

My current work opens a dialogue with the audience by presenting pieces that explore a tactile aesthetic interaction.  To execute this psychology, I created arrangements of densely textured porcelain and stoneware objects that allowed the viewer to contemplate grasping fossilized socks, tasting a porcelain sculpture, or physically confronting a wall of violent handprints.