In my work, I am driven by a sense of discovery that develops as I engage in an ongoing investigation of the material. In this way, I build my practice around extensive experimentation. I am interested in exploring a material’s limits, and wavering along the precarious boundary between stability and instability. I seek purpose in material weaknesses, by constructing patterns and systems from these attributes. Most recently, I have been slip-casting and deconstructing porcelain cubes, and then creating arrangements and compositions with the fragments. I am intrigued by this entropic cycle, whereby raw materials are manipulated and given form, then broken down, and altered once again. Each stage of alteration gives character to the object and offers hints of its journey. I am interested in exploring shape and contour, and the possibility of interjecting a human quality into this cycle of material change. The question of how this process relates to human experience continues to compel me, and ultimately I hope for the manipulation and examination of clay to step beyond a study of materials, into an exploration of one’s existence in nature.