"My practice serves as a therapeutic device to help me process my traumatic childhood and adolescence. I uncover repressed memories and document the few stories I have left from this time. I self-soothe emotional wounds by depicting my struggles and creating imagined scenarios of intimacy and interpersonal connection. I live vicariously through these scenes and experience a glimpse of these fundamentally human events that I have missed out on. I fantasize about connections and experiences that most take for granted, often turning to maladaptive daydreaming. My understanding of mundane intimacy as something purely fantastical, and my obsession with imagining such experiences, is represented by the exaggerated proportions of human figures. Much like croquis fashion sketches, the anatomy is simplified yet dramatic. This cartoon-like stylization also allows me to depict unpleasant memories while preserving the last of my childhood innocence. Motivated by a life of envy, peering in from the outside and watching others have the simple life experiences that I yearn for, my work now invites the viewer to become the voyeur. Amongst the different pieces in my collective body of work, the viewer can both see from my perspective and experience intimate interactions from the outside, or become a voyeur to my life through the documentation of my personal memories. 

I combine fantastical figure illustrations with ceramic forms to portray and evoke feelings of intimacy and isolation. I often start with a pen and ink illustration, which is then translated into a three-dimensional ceramic sculpture or illustrated onto a functional vessel. I draft the figures with a clay sketch to grasp how the dramatized anatomy will fit together in the round before tackling the final ceramic piece."