The fundamental drive behind my creation of utilitarian objects is a desire to found meaningful connections that celebrate and enrich the eccentricities of daily life. These objects engage the user with an ability to enrich routine consumption and to engender conversations about love, life, happiness, and desperation.

My work is informed by experience, and utilizes the expressive potential of porcelain to present a patently honest interpretation of passive observations and past memories. Although functional considerations, securely proud illustrations, and sugary gold trim facilitate carefree celebration—dangerously cynical ghosts often lurk in the liminal area between the images gouged into buttery clay and the lush veil of glaze I continually reformulate to keep them captive (and to captivate feely fingers).

These objects pander to a stilted view of real life, where things are neither as positive or as negative, nor nearly as important as they seem. They validate an ambiguous morality, or rather, make pertinent those moments in which morality hardly applies: a drink of water, a kiss, an empty gaze, a book lost before completion, or a drunken letter to your sober self.

I really like making these things for you, so I hope you like them back!