the home the studio the office the kitchen the temple is a series of handbuilt ceramics and ink drawings that emerged during the pandemic while navigating the compatibility and influence of motherhood, work, studio, and kitchen tasks. Like a bead or amulet, these hand-formed ceramics reference the body in the sphere of the domestic. The practice of constructing table-top sculptures and ink drawings offer a meditative take on playful attention and its ability to both cultivate devotion and elevate the senses.

This fresh series of accumulated and altered time cards explore my relationship to labor and care through the lense of being a female identifying artist/caregiver. These wall based time cards are embellished with decorative cross stitch, carbon paper graphite transfers, collage, fruit PLU stickers and glazed ceramic beads. The ritual of handforming modest amounts of clay and stitching into a paper structure is like an "episodic" engagement - I can stop and pick up readily while dual-tasking in a domestic space. As I reflect over the past year, I am grateful for the many nourishing and generative connections made with other artist/caregivers. The social engagement supported my curiosity around the divergent ways an art practice might look and how these practices might help build empathy within a home and community.  How might our creative practices nourish future thinking? How can we support human scale action that pendulates between visible and invisible - personal and political?

This series of monoprints are produced by applying manual die cut stencils and waterbased ink to a gelatin plate matrix. The work is presented in pairs to celebrate the relationship between primary and secondary prints. Like pressing incised marks into the soft body of clay - monoprints also hold the memory of surface mark making. The rhythm of monoprintmaking is a playful approach for me to construct and deconstruct compositions using repetition and shape.