about

Things we choose to fit or outfit our bodies hold the power to profess identity, connection, and community. I make porcelain wearables that are formed through pressing clay onto my body or another person’s body. This process demands specific touch and ongoing intuitive response to the clay impressions. Delicate marks of skin and wrinkles remain on the undersides of the pieces, while I fashion the reverse side into a glazed, sanded topography. These objects hold time, intimacy, attention, and gradual warmth when placed in contact with the skin.

The most important part of these objects is the interface with the body and what they offer the wearer. They are made with intention: collarbone hollow wearables to fill cavities rather than letting them fill with heaviness, a throat-hollow wearable to warm quiet vocal cords, wearables for the arches of the feet to ground, support, and stabilize. They outfit the wearer to face experiences of discomfort, invisibility, oppression, and erasure they might encounter as a queer person, trans person, or person of color.

This work, grounded in the non-negotiable permanency of ceramics centers the complexities of temporal existences: intimacy and care, relationships between buffers, distance and closeness, solitude and the desire to fit or fit in one’s own body and community.