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The current state of the world feels more daunting every day. My work serves as as refuge for me to make material evoke meaning and to create what I want to see in the world. The resulting sculptures span table- top sized vessels, busts and figures to elaborate multi- piece still life tableaus. I work with porcelain, mining the material’s historically weighted past and its long held associations with desire, taste, and consumption. In my sculptural works I juxtapose extremes, wedding the grotesque to the idealized world of femininity, gathering images and histories along vast cultural lines. The resulting works I create crack open preconceived tropes and allow room for defiance and play. To create my work I use myriad techniques; the clay is sculpted, draped, carved, woven and piped. Explanation: