Reimagining the intimate entanglement of history, mythology, and personal experience, my work molds past and future through a contemporary queer lens, recontextualizing narratives of intimacy, resilience, and identity. Through hand-built ceramic sculpture I navigate the nuances of contemporary love, sex, and friendship, capturing the ephemeral yet enduring nature of queer relationships across both digital and physical realms. Sentiments imbued through touch; each sculpture is infused with the ephemeral weight of lived experience, grounding fleeting connections in something tangible and resisting the erosive friction of time and culture.
Ceramics have long served as vessels for spiritual and emotional resonance, and in my work, this humanistic tradition is expanded to hold queer narratives—those too often marginalized or erased by dominant narratives. Through recontextualization and reimagination, I reframe inherited myths and histories, playfully centering queer identities in spaces they have been systematically excluded.
A reimagined Cupid and Psyche, now pre-destined lovers of the same gender; or Narcissus, gazing not in vanity but with an aromantic introspection at an iPhone selfie, are examples of how I subvert and challenge the stability of heteronormative storytelling. These works celebrate the multifaceted nature of queer identities while exploring the fragility and strength inherent in reimagining our collective myths.
The embrace of failure—both systemic and personal—shapes my practice, allowing space for rupture, resistance, and reinvention within institutional narratives. By confronting the power structures that have long relegated queerness to the margins, my work unravels and reimagines those dynamics. At the same time, a sense of hopeful longing propels my sculptures, envisioning futures where queer stories are not only preserved but celebrated. These are vessels for connection and transformation—holding the storied weight of history and myth, while offering glimpses of a more inclusive, tender tomorrow.
At its heart, touch is the springboard of my practice. Each figure carries the memory of my hands, hands that once held a lover or sent intimate texts, transforming transient digital connections into enduring forms. Humor and play, woven with honesty and vulnerability, becomes a bridge—disarming, healing, and opening space to hold difficult and subversive conversations. My sculptures celebrate the power of queer love, intimacy, and connection, as vessels for stories that are celebrated, histories are rewritten, and more inclusive and loving futures are imagined.
Ultimately my work reflects my ongoing dialogue between queerness, mythology, philosophy, and confessional storytelling, bridging timeless sentiments and narratives with evolving contemporary perspectives.