As a ceramic artist, my sculptural work in clay is informed by my environs and the interplay between materiality and meaning. In my practice I employ ceramic materials to thematically express concepts regarding home, identity and memory. Working in clay retains the immediacy of the hand leaving a direct impression of the maker. This is a physical and emotive process that aims to reduce my eco-anxiety and feelings of solastalgia.

Compelled to work in concert with the earth, I began to utilize the clay right outside my door step. During the research and development of my backyard earth into a clay body, I came across the term “wild-clay” and discovered a growing number of other ceramicists who harvest their clay as a means towards a more sustainable practice. My interest in working with wild clay is its direct association to the land and the site-specific properties of the clay body that make it unique — its terroir. I am attempting to understand my clay body in its natural un-fined unfiltered state and in all forms as a powder, liquid and a solid.