This summer I’ve continued to slowly work away on a body of work that has been taking shape over the last few years. I’ve been experimenting with new forms, surface textures and finishing techniques and I’ve felt stretched and challenged to grow as I expand in my visual language. I’m eager to bring this work to fruition and to share it with you over the coming months, so stay tuned!
And after being in studio limbo since moving from California back to my hometown Cleveland, I’ve finally carved out a supportive container to hold my art practice. I’m calling the new studio space my “creativity cave” because it’s in the basement of my home, and much like a cave, it is quite literally within the belly of the Earth. Shifting my art practice into the subterranean feels fitting to me as I predominately work with clay - the elemental material of the Earth. The new space is gradually coming together and I’m eager to share more details (including a studio tour!) with you soon.
In the meantime, I’m delighted to share that my work has recently been featured in two art publications - Issue 14 of New Visionary Magazine, a NYC-based contemporary art magazine presented by Visionary Art Collective and Volume VI of AQ Quarterly, a book series presented by Create! Magazine celebrating women and non-binary artists. Many thanks to the curators Marina Press Granger and Gita Joshi, respectively, for including me in these publications!
Each feature includes a selection of images of my work along with an interview. Both publications can be purchased through the websites linked above and I also want to share a few highlights here. In this excerpt from New Visionary Magazine, I share about first discovering clay and my evolving process:
“When I first discovered clay, I experienced a profound embodied awakening; I felt this sense of expansion and liberation that I had never consciously known before. At first, I wasn’t really tuned in to the conceptual aspects of my process, I was simply wholly immersed in my relationship with the medium and I was amazed to witness what emerged. Over the years, I’ve developed a clear intention to communicate something about how energy manifests into form; how energy is never actually destroyed but is transformed from one state into another.”
Mother Spirit, 2024 - Stoneware clay and oil paint cold finish
Also from New Visionary Magazine, I discuss the connection I feel between my counseling work and my art practice:
“I see both my counseling work and my art practice as creative, emergent processes. In my counseling work, my core intention is to support clients in connecting with the innate wisdom of their Soul’s journey. One way I do this is by attuning to what is arising in the relational field and then responding with care and curiosity. This is very much how I work with clay, tuning into my relationship with the material in any given moment and then responding from there. I see the spiral as a powerful, universal symbol for this process and so it is no coincidence that the spiral often forms the foundation for much of my ceramic work and that I refer to my counseling practice as Spiral Path Counseling.”
The Butterfly Effect, 2021 - Stoneware clay and oil paint cold finish
And lastly, in this excerpt from AQ Quarterly, I share about what I hope to communicate through my art:
“My hope is that my art evokes in viewers a visceral felt-sense of our intrinsic interconnectivity. Through experiencing an embodied remembrance of connection to a greater whole, my hope is that viewers are further inspired to reflect upon the possibilities that become available in restoring balance in our relationships with each other and with the Earth.”
You are a Particle and You are also a Wave #4, 2017 - Stoneware clay, glaze and oil paint accents
