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My intention is to share work that stirs the visceral will to face our many challenges, with joy & hope,
in the beauty that is in us and all other life. Beauty that is under our feet and setting sail at our backs.
Mother Nature, depicted as African, represents our common origins. Her hair is entwined with African flowers
and fish, prehistoric gingko leaves, stars, seaweed & a yellow cautionary canary.
The series references, the canary-in-the-coal-mine as an alert of our social & ecojustice issues and the
challenge of removing profit-driven Elephant-in-the-Room. There are ten pieces in the series, three utilize ice.
The other two speak to our glaciers melting.
As a native of California, the clay state, I work with clay from the earth to defend the earth. I feel an urgency
to create art in this revolutionary time and value clay’s infinite potential − mirroring our own.
Inspired by its no-waste complexity, nature is my source and my anchor, in wild places and at home in East Oakland. It can guide us, as artists and citizens, by its responses to our actions.
Clay has a memory. It records your fingerprints and all the ways you held it in your hands. Our earth has a memory and responds to our manipulations. My work in clay draws from the knowledge that everything…us,
our food, home, clothes, tools, toys all come from the ‘clay’ of the earth and the hope that we will seek solutions in nature-based knowledge to grow, gather, love & consume leaving the smallest fingerprint.
in the beauty that is in us and all other life. Beauty that is under our feet and setting sail at our backs.
Mother Nature, depicted as African, represents our common origins. Her hair is entwined with African flowers
and fish, prehistoric gingko leaves, stars, seaweed & a yellow cautionary canary.
The series references, the canary-in-the-coal-mine as an alert of our social & ecojustice issues and the
challenge of removing profit-driven Elephant-in-the-Room. There are ten pieces in the series, three utilize ice.
The other two speak to our glaciers melting.
As a native of California, the clay state, I work with clay from the earth to defend the earth. I feel an urgency
to create art in this revolutionary time and value clay’s infinite potential − mirroring our own.
Inspired by its no-waste complexity, nature is my source and my anchor, in wild places and at home in East Oakland. It can guide us, as artists and citizens, by its responses to our actions.
Clay has a memory. It records your fingerprints and all the ways you held it in your hands. Our earth has a memory and responds to our manipulations. My work in clay draws from the knowledge that everything…us,
our food, home, clothes, tools, toys all come from the ‘clay’ of the earth and the hope that we will seek solutions in nature-based knowledge to grow, gather, love & consume leaving the smallest fingerprint.