My work focuses on the relationship we cultivate with our environment - the natural world around us, as well as that which we create. Foremost a ceramicist, I explore cross-sections between beauty and utility - form and function teasing one another towards aesthetic absurdity. Drawn to the organic as well as the ornate, I pull inspiration from the natural world, the way we separate ourselves from it, and the way we cannot help but use that separation to reach back again.

I am interested in our interactions with the items we use and see daily. My work explores the intimacy we have to our things, and how we use them to (re)connect to the natural world around us. When I create, it is with the notion of beautiful, handmade things as a facet of daily life - an extension of ourselves and our environment.

I am based in the Cincinnati area. I first encountered clay in a high school ceramics class, where it was love at first off-center mug. After leaving an ill-fated corporate job in 2019, I decided to start dedicating time to clay in earnest, moving to Colorado and joining the NOCO Potter’s Guild. In the spring of 2021, after much making, learning, and a little too much snow, I moved back to Ohio, where I pursue ceramics full time.