Handmade ceramic sculpture, winner of the “Best Sculpture” Award in the Clay Houston group exhibition in 2023. It has also been exhibited in the Miami Florida Ceramics exhibition at the Lighthouse Arts Center in 2024.

This piece is colored porcelain and glaze with a gestural scraped texture that I make by combing and scraping very soft colored porcelain clay onto a porcelain form. The piece is approximately 17” inches in diameter at the base and tapers some up to a height of 14”.

My ceramic pieces are handbuilt using slab and coil methods. I make the colored porcelain using inclusion stains with the slow method of making a stained porcelain slip (a very liquid clay), and then drying it out on plaster bats, then wedging it into a workable consistency. Sometimes I use a slab roller to roll large slabs, or I roll small slabs with a tapered rolling pin and the “pizza toss” method. I like sharing these process details so that you can imagine me working on the piece in the studio. Countless hours go into the process of creating, and the sculpture holds the movements of my hands and the care and intention of making.