My work honors the inherent value and dignity of the feminine, seeing it as a vital pathway to more sustainable living. The feminine tendency to nurture and cultivate is an antidote to the aggressive and ravenous forms of power that order contemporary human hierarchies.

I combine feminine inspired silhouettes with baluster forms to create a vessel that is both stately and sinuous. Nourishment and cultivation have come to be known as feminine traits, and feminine traits have been labeled as weaknesses. In order to emphasize the importance of feminine energy, I create a form with waist and hips following the guidelines of a baluster, visual language that is associated with architecture of power and status. The baluster is named for the Latin word balaustra, for pomegranate, earned by its portrayal of a blossoming pomegranate flower bud, with its bulbous base and steadily opening neck and mouth.  This sign of luscious abundance entered architecture during the Renaissance and has appeared in countless structures of consequence since. My surface designs add exuberance and movement to the forms. I prefer improvising bountiful floral patterns in high fire atmospheres to infuse my feminine vessels with a buoyant girlish spirit.

I imagine my pieces in a relationship with their buyers, they become a joyful presence in a home and encourage the slow relishing of simple everyday private and communal rituals surrounding food and drink. I choose to focus on functional ceramics because I see sharing meals as an important part of community maintenance and a symbol of our investment in one another’s nourishment. I want the pieces to remind you of the vivid women nurturers in your life.