What’s more fun than a dramatic statement bowl?

Combining my passion for hostessing and aspirations for more dinner parties with friends along with my desire to improve my larger-scale wheel-throwing skills, through Drama Bowls — my first commercial project! – I’m focused on pushing my abilities while offering what I think is one of the most rewarding functional objects to buy handmade.

…to be continued!

Ceramic materials are uniquely resilient against destruction by the passing of time. Having immersed myself in ceramic-making in high school and studied archaeology while in university, I’m interested in the ability of this medium to communicate stories from inhabitants of ancient civilizations – often as the only vessels left to represent these people; rare fragments of mysterious societies.

In this series, I hope to experiment with sharing messages with the future — increasingly pessimistic through my work in climate justice and sustainability activism, I seek to transcend the ephemeral digital media that dominate how I communicate day-to-day and create something that can outlast even the piles of plastics we’ll leave behind for future archaeologists to decipher.

Building things dinosaurs may have hatched from, just for fun.

Through a great program with Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, I explored using found materials to develop screenprinted repeat patterns on textiles. I hope to use these printed textiles for further projects in the future.

Photos here show an experiment creating a repeat pattern with dry spaghetti noodles, and with flowers found in my parents’ garden.