My goal as an artist is to achieve a balance between the known and the unknown. My artwork is both the site and evidence of past actions. The materials I use have meaning, and are chosen for their associations to use, to the body, healing, and memory. The objects, installations and video I create provide clues to the story, but not enough to provide the answer.

This tendency to simplify and distill is embodied in the landscape of my childhood. Colorado is a land of opposites where the Great Plains rush up to meet the Rocky Mountains: when the snow falls, it hides what is underneath and makes all things equal, softer, and mysterious. This quiet sensibility is echoed in my work. Any action leaves a trace in the landscape, like Richard Long's line in the field, where the action is not witnessed, but the evidence is seen and remembered.
           
My approach to ceramics incorporates these dichotomies that have surrounded me my whole life. I choose to work with clay because of its ability to be soft and brittle, strong and fragile. Its associations with function are important to me. I often incorporate other media as well, and believe that the dialogue that ceramics can have with such diverse mediums as video, sound and light, make for a unique and powerful conversation.

Exhibition texts:

Buoyancy/Gravity

Heave

In the Wake

Listen/Speak

Portal

Recovery

You Only Have What You Remember

Curatorial texts:

Handle with Care