Statement

I am interested in evidence of the making, and connection to the maker. I am interested in clay as a means of carrying stories and meaning through gesture, marks, design, repair, imperfection, accidents. I am interested in how meaning is bound in objects, and also how things and memories are gathered and preserved in museums, collections and libraries. What exactly is preserved, and how do beauty and function inform survival and accumulation of meaning? ​

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I am interested in place, journeys, memory and story.

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I am also interested in the natural world of geology, clay in its wild state and in historical production. And how clay is transformed by human imaginary landscapes—of myth, maps, totems, fakes, the gothic and grotesque, decadence, irony and terror.