New Work 2026-
This body of work introduces a new challenge for me as a maker. In previous collections, my focus centered on alternative approaches to prototyping and model development, often through plaster carving and sledging, clay, and the appropriation and manipulation of found objects.
This new series shifts that dynamic: clay becomes the primary material for making models. With this choice comes a different kind of intimacy and resistance. Working in clay forces me to slow down, to negotiate with the limitations of my hand, its plasticity, and its stubbornness. The process is tactile in a way that is very different than plaster. I need to be deliberate, and in that slowness, I find myself returning to childhood memories in the forms—racetracks, doodles, jellybeans, animal cookies, puzzle pieces—forms that feel playful yet intentional.
The work is as much about limitation as it is about possibility. The hand can only do so much before the material asserts its own voice. That tension—between control and surrender—has become central to my practice. Each piece reflects a negotiation between structure and gesture, fluidity, and constraint. In embracing these limitations, I discover new rhythms and gestures, and in doing so, I reconnect with why I make: to explore, to question, and to let the process transform me as much as the object.