2024, Dark body ceramic stoneware, decorated with porcelain colored slip, underglaze 

16 in x 19 in x 10 in

Sometimes femininity feels like a big hat that is weighty on my head. I have never fit the stereotypical feminine mold. I do wear dresses but sometimes dresses wear me and I feel like an imposter playing dress up. How many flowers does it take, and how big of a hat do I need? 

2024, 15” x 16” x 3” ceramic stoneware (Standard clay 308 Brooklyn Red) decorated with colored porcelain slip, accidental cone 7 🫠 (was aiming for 6), wall hanging. 

As I was making this piece it started to look like a uterus which I didn’t intend but I decided to go with it and at one point it also looked like a skull and I had the thought, “death has no power here”. I then worked to redeem what was once something dead and make it a symbol of life. Perhaps this was an exercise in reclaiming my own experience of processing unresolved grief of a hysterectomy 15 years ago.

2024, ceramic stoneware (standard clay 308) decorated with colored slip and underglaze, 19” x 13” x 6”

It’s the feeling of being labeled a goddess when knowing full well it’s a sham, a farce and a pretend label to make her feel better about herself but she agrees to it because she’s a pleaser but she secretly despises herself for allowing others to define her.

2024, Ceramic Stoneware, colored slip, underglaze, colored pencil 

20 in x 18 in x 16 in

Sometimes ignorance is bliss. You can peaceful sleep if you deny your problems lurking under the surface. Eventually, you do wake up. You can either face the monsters now on your terms or deny they exist and face them on their terms and their timing.

2024, Dark ceramic stoneware, decorated with colored porcelain slip and underglaze, 13" x 5.5" x 5.5"

Just a girl and her monster puppet who through her puppet she can venture out and take risks by speaking through it, thus not having to fully take responsibility if she, via the puppet monster, crosses a social taboo. This is a metaphor in how we protect ourselves by creating personae’s for different environments, ie; work self, friend self, church self. Ideally we should allow the mask/puppet to drop and be our authentic selves buI like my little friend.

2024, ceramic stoneware (standard clay 266) decorated with colored slips & underglaze, 17” x 14” x 15”

Similar to my other piece, Femininity Wears Me, this piece I titled Acquiescence which means passive acceptance or submission. When I was a kid I was a Tomboy and looking back I feel that stereotypical femininity was foisted onto me like a weighty hat and I passively accepted it. I wasn’t against being a girl, I just didn’t give it much of a thought. I was too busy doing kid things and when I was forced into playing that role it felt weighty & overwhelming.