As an eldest daughter and granddaughter, awareness to others and meeting a need has been engrained in my hands from an early age. This beginning wells up a demand for creating objects that are functional while also allowing myself opportunity to be playful in the exploration of materials and form.

This idea of utility has been essential to my work while also looking at connection between myself and the user. I sit with objects in a slow making process to consider what the pot can give to the receiver or make items in sets of two to offer a link between the two pieces. The need for functionality goes beyond if a pot is useful, but also examines our need for sensory objects to ground us in our daily lives. In our age of constant stimulation, grounding oneself to physical hand crafted items challenges modern convention and harkens back to working with our hands, taking care of the things we have, and the need for community to grow one another. 

As I continue in this need for function and connection between my making and the person using my work, I aim to develop a body of work that represents the need for craft not just in our homes for daily use but also within ourselves as a form of kinship between one another.