Artist Statement

I have always been interested in art and arts and crafts. My dad always says that my mom had a crayon in my hand before anything else, and that I was constantly doing art projects. My mother is a great artist, she can draw, paint and always has creative ideas, she is mostly a graphic designer though.

When I was 10 I started a County Summer camp for clay and I fell in love with it. I think that I look up mostly to my ceramics instructor, he's the one who shows me how to do something when I don't know how, and I still am learning from him till this day. His name is Jason Alexander and he mostly does thrown pieces, all though I'm not nearly as good as he is I always attempt things he has made.

Lately I have been doing some work incorporating various artists’ work and themes. I have been working with my own body like Nan Smith, and Nature like Jerry Uelsmann. I am taking their themes body and nature and incorporating them into functional ceramic pieces as well as other sculptural pieces. After my 3rd or 4th year at the pottery camp I knew it wasn't just something I was going to do in the summer anymore, I wanted to do it all the time. I started high school and I was throwing at least 3 times a week and was getting better, by the next summer I had gotten so much better. This made me realize that this is what I love, and it is what makes me happiest.

Although I can't complete everything because I have limited recourses, my ideas are not limited. In the future I would like to grow as a better pottery that can throw 3x bigger than I do now, and into different sculpture materials. I would like to use metals, plastic, porcelain, glass anything I can get my hands on really. I would like to continue on body and nature as well as move to abstract. 

Right now I am working on a sculpture with tape, cellophane, and tissue paper; I am using my own body to make sculptures some hang, and some that light up. Originally the legs were going to be balloons but they were unfortunately too heavy to float, so I turned them into a mobile and happy with they way they turned out.  

Ultimately I would love to have my own studio, and become a well-known potter and sculptor, I already have my own wheel, and I use it every chance I get.  I am volunteering at the Tj art studio, I am learning about the kilns, mixing glazes, and different pottery techniques. The man I work with most wants to start some sculptures with me, show me how to bind/weld metals and glass in clay pieces. I will be moving forward in what I would like to do and learning a lot from him.