Statement:

      My work interprets womanhood, fertility, and how women experience constraining societal and cultural pressures, both emotional and physical, relative to physiological changes. 

     Since childhood, it has been ingrained in me to be passive - to avoid confrontation and to apologize. I have allowed my voice to be suppressed, to be bound and constricted, to feel invisible and without sound. Through this body of work, I have begun to reclaim my voice by speaking about my own struggle as a female.

     Porcelain is a material that helps me represent purity, delicacy, and fragility. My use of it could also be considered an expression of strength, as it is one of the strongest materials known. This clay body allows me to mimic soft and supple flesh where highly detailed manipulations of surface, force the material to become something it is not. By stretching the limits of porcelain’s physical properties, my work symbolizes many of the complexities of femininity as defined by both myself and by society.