Self States are temporary and changing perspectives on how one perceives their own body and self. These speak to psychological knowledge and sensory understandings and misunderstandings. These when displayed against paired backgrounds create and different emphasis in the interactions of self and environment.

Shells are pieces of reversal, where neither side contains all the information, but rather where each side is the negative/positive of the other. In the first example, this is seen simply as the figure possessing an inside and outside. It nods back to a longer discussion of the meaning and nature of possessing breasts, in those depressions created. Furthermore, no interior anatomy is noted: a separation of the self from the body. In the next two examples, the self is isolated from environment, with environment being waves of ‘feeling’. In the fourth, the self is again isolated from environment, with hallucinations present. A particular element noteworthy here is the glow of light on the figure even though that light source is found apparent only on the back side. So here, relevancy of interaction maintains through the piece. In the final example, this negative/positive interaction is more literally witness in the boundary lines discussion of the negative/positive space interaction in terms of sexual intercourse. Where does one partner begin and the other end? Outside of these front and back notations, the negative space clay is left untreated.

Reservations are a newly formed technique where a portion of the object is ‘reserved’ out of consideration as art. In the first example, we witness continuing landscape unaddressed. This is visually demonstrated with a lacking of texture and glaze. In the second, we witness space taken up around the flowers and similarly unaddressed. In the third, the art scene itself is hidden underneath the pot entirely, an intellectually abstract tongue-in-cheek commentary on pots as art and the object itself as art.

These tree series explore articulation of nature in clay. This pursuit is approached in terms of hand-built forms, meticulous incision of texture on surface, and color approach through mason stain discovery. This work seeks to explore the articulation of nature and environment as it relates to the artist, with heavy attention paid to past intellectual work in two-dimensional rendering of natural forms, with perception and idealization of nature playing a large role in that process.

TERF discusses the challenges many women face as they have transpired through an arduous fight with breast cancer only to hear their sense of womanhood questioned on the other side by radical gender activists. Any person who agrees that gender is something you must think or feel is a person who agrees those struggling with gender identity cannot have a firm grasp on that reality. This struggle becomes attacking and a winding maze for many people who experience gender dysphoria, when even those who are supposed to help you serve only to confuse you more deeply.

Growth discusses the beginning of human life in this most vulnerable in utero stage. Growth discusses how all organisms experience life stages, how intraorganistically, or across species, life is still life. In the case of the human species, life definitively begins at conception, but currently a huge portion of scientific misinformation runs amok. The pro-abortion argument is really not an argument of when human life begins, but rather when it is protected and valued. It is surely alarming how so many individuals are willing to deny science in order to justify actions they wish. While this piece nods to barbaric modern killing practices in utero, Growth really discusses the beginnings of life for us all.

Petals opens a discussion on female genitals and the worldly experience as a woman. How much of life is spent open and how much is spent private? How much are others pouring from you, how much are they pouring into you, instead? With flesh tones prevalent, and a focus given to the inside, the viewer is permitted an intimate consideration of time spent with your own body as a woman, where access is yours and you choose what to do with that portion, privilege, and space.