The intangible elements within me take shape through the act of making. As I shape clay into vessels I am in-turn shaped by them, each one becoming a place where memory and identity settle. The work emerges from my experiences across different cultures. As circumstances shift around me, the urge to construct a protective shelter becomes evident and expressive. The vessel serves as a space through which I articulate and release emotion while searching for a sense of belonging. In shaping these forms, I recognize that the boundaries of my own identity remain in constant negotiation.

I think of my work as the creation of artifacts, the objects rooted in personal history and in the archive I have accumulated through lived experience. We inhabit a world in which culture, tradition, and history are never fixed. They are continually transformed through movement, exchange, and time. Within this perpetual state of change, clay becomes both witness and record, preserving the evolving narrative of its identity.

Every step of my process is a deliberate negotiation between the direction the form wishes to take and the decisions I make as its maker. Each vessel records a moment in an ongoing journey. I hope these objects endure beyond my ephemeral existence, carrying traces of my experience while continuing to generate new memories and meanings for those who encounter them.