I am a young artist from the Outer Banks, now living and working in Baltimore. I am growing, creating, and sharing.  I dig clay and nurture herbs: I grow. I make pots and cook meals and brew tea: I create.  I share them all.  My work is how I connect to the earth and to my community.  It is a vessel for both giving and receiving.  My work is my ecology.

 

Growing: The nurturing of plants reflects the nurturing of myself and of those around me.  Tending is a gentleness offered, that is always returned as a feeling of calm and love.  My work of gardening is to support an environment, and therefore to support and heal myself.

 

Creating: Clay is the earth.  It is the most abundant and pervasive natural material beneath our feet.  It holds us as the earth does.  I explore my admiration for this material and nature  through the replication of natural patterns and textures, and the use of foraged materials.  Through claywork, cooking, and brewing, I build vessels of and for what I have received from the earth. 

 

Sharing: Utilitarian vessels are one of the most accessible ways of sharing with others.  When you lift a mug to your lips you are met with the perspective of the potter.  When you hold a handmade bowl you caress the touch of its creator.  Pottery, meals, and tea are deep forms of intimacy and empathy that know no words, where I get to offer my work as a vessel to support the nourishment of others. 

I am drawing circles through ceramics as a medium, and finding that circularity in myself.  I sculpt clayware, forage and grow materials, and share them in an experiential and experimental search for wholeness.  I reach for nature and for those around me with my process, and I build my cyclical ecology.