I am a ceramicist and sculptor working primarily in clay, with a focus on large-scale wheel throwing and handbuilding. Drawing from my background in art and psychology, I explore attachment, vulnerability, play, humor, and emotional intimacy through objects that exist between sculpture, functional object, and companion. My forms borrow from toys, animals, characters, and childhood objects, using cuteness, exaggerated proportions, and shifts in scale to create familiarity and strangeness. I am drawn to clay’s relationship to touch and the body, and to the contrast between the visual softness of my forms and the hardness and fragility of fired ceramic.