I create beautiful, thoughtful, and emotionally satisfying clay sculptures, using human and animal figures, nature imagery, and abstraction. I hand-build my sculpture from stoneware clay and build up surfaces over 3-4 firings. My work centers around the human search for authenticity and belonging. I am addressing the problem of being disconnected from the land, wild creatures, and intuition. My work also speaks to modern identity, or where we are truly at home when much of ancestral culture may have dissolved, been actively destroyed, or is one in which we do not wish to be a part. This can create a "hole" in our identity, but no matter our human history, we can find ancestors all around us- in the small and large organisms of the earth, in the trees, and the dirt. Through this “primal memory,” we can envision and foster a future of health.