2022, 32" x 38" x 6" Soda fired red stoneware, underglaze, glaze, gesso (with no cloud: 28"x5"x25") 

The act and pressure for an individual to “come out” as anything other than heterosexual or cisgender is an absurd example of the heteronormative colonial grip on society. Coming out to one’s family and friends can be terrifying, and not coming out can feel like holding onto a big secret. It is a complicated feeling to acknowledge one’s true self to others in a society which has polarized and politicized sexualities. The figure is represented as a scarlet macaw, a bird which naturally has all the colour of the rainbow, reflecting the symbol of LGBTQ+ pride and support.

2022, 16” x 18” x 51” Stoneware, wood, bronze paint, string

2023, 35"x 7"x 16," stoneware, glaze

Like many trans and queer who have not come out to their family, they often feel like they are living two separate lives, I know I did. This piece is an acknowledgement of the moment that those two lives are blended into one when I came out to my family.

2023, 24"x 30"x 81," mid range stoneware, glazes, gold lustre, plaster, wood

This life-sized piece references the new knowledge of knowing what kind of gender-affirming care is available. Knowing it would be possible to receive top-surgery and take hormones to better align me body with how I have always felt, was revolutionary for me. I never knew this would be available to someone like me.  

2023, 24"x 26"x 75," soda fired stoneware, porcelain, lustre glaze, flashing slip, plaster, graphite, metal

Referencing Peter S. Beagle's book The Last Unicorn, this piece links the queer experience to the unicorn's journey from this story. In Beagle's book, the unicorn believes she is the last of her kind, so goes on a quest to find the rest of the unicorn community. Similarly to many queers growing up, thinking they are not the last ones, but the only ones of their kind, they must go on a journey to find their queer community, to find the people that understand their lives and help them feel less isolated.

2023, 24"x 24"x 8" (figure: 16"x 10"x 6") soda fired stoneware, flashing slip, plaster, graphite

This piece is a physical manifestation of the fears and nervousness of beginning to transition my gender. Even with the certainty that this is what I want for my life, the self-doubt that constantly lives in the back of my mind holds all negative feelings associated with a big life change. 

The only thing that cannot be seen in this image is that the graphite base is 24"x24" wide, and this piece its on the floor.

 2022, Suspended: 48” x 48” x 16,” Porcelain, gold lustre, salt crystals, wood, metal

Inner Demons exist in many people to varying degrees. They represent the internal struggles that only the host is aware of, bringing on self-doubt, depression or anxiety. This piece is a representation of attempting to reason with those demons, to bring logic to these moments of internal struggle. The demons come in the form of wolves, as these pack animals hunt in the dark and have always fed the nightmares of humanity. Ganging up on our minds from the depths of our unconscious.

(a detail image of the figure and the wolves interacting can be seen in the first images)

2023, 8’8”x 34”x 39,” stoneware, glazes, insulation  foam, acrylic silicone, metal (pedestal: 44"x36"x25")

The gesture that this large-scale sculpture is making is inherently rude and references a very gay act coming from a female-bodied individual. This piece is made in response a verbal homophobic attack that the artist received which happened literally on the font doorstep of the home they grew up in, a place that the artist never considered to be unsafe in any way in terms of homophobia. The Chameleon being an animal that blends into its surroundings, implies that queers exist everywhere, they live among the straights through all of society. The almost 8 foot long tongue in combination with the "licking V" gesture is a big "f-you" to those homophobic people out there who make queers feel unsafe for being out and visible.