I explore the relationships that people have with one another and with themselves, from a feminine perspective.  I use the connection between ornamented, domestic objects and the age-old expectations of women as the groundwork for questioning these expectations.  

My sculptures use symbols and nods to art history, such as Victorian and Rococo ornamentation, floriography, and narrative storytelling to explore the different faces of quiet melancholia, particularly within the everyday experiences of women.  The fear of loving and being loved, the sorrow of a friendship fading, the stress of conforming to impossible ideals – these are the experiences that inform my work.  

Drawing from my own experiences with melancholia, I am attempting to represent what is bittersweet and emotional.  I focus on the relationship between gestural handling of the clay and tightly rendered surface within my work.  The tension of tightly rendered surface and gestural surface is reflective of the complexity and depths contained within a single person.