Artist Statement

My art practice explores the human experience of sexuality. I strive to evoke feelings of lust and longing within the viewer and place value on self pleasure. My erotic art lives in an ambiguous state as I place intimate objects into a public space. Clay is easily manipulated using touch, making it a material that naturally references the body and I consider my relationship with ceramics to be quite sensual. To finish my surrealist work I take a multimedia approach in order to question the line between lowbrow craft and fine art while I embrace the category of kitsch. I formed my color palette based on the binary gendering of pink and blue, but I often use lavender as an in-between to subvert this dichotomy. With my most recent body of work I investigate the fetishization of my anatomy, examine what it means to be a sexual being, and explore power dynamics within intimate relationships.