"My ceramic sculptural work has long stemmed from an abiding interest in natural systems and the physical and historical connections between me, soil, and the makers who came before me. Over the past twenty years, my use of terra sigillata (an ancient Roman ceramic process), is not only a formal aesthetic choice, it is a nod to the long ceramic history in which I am a committed participant.

Since 2017, exhibitions and residencies in Japan have pushed me beyond ceramics into place-based work — out of my studio and into specific locales, making work on-site with found objects, foraged clay, plant fiber, and unfired paper clay. What has emerged is a recognition that I have a nostalgia for meaning in the materials I use, and that I want material histories and place to be visible, tangible, and shareable."