About

I’m an MFA student focusing on ceramics at Brigham Young University.

Still Life Happens

During my busy, child-rearing years, preparing and serving food daily for others was my primary creative outlet. Now I make sculptural groupings of common, larger-than-life scale ceramic food forms staged on large, white ceramic platters as well as arrangements of these forms on the floor. Recreating larger-scale food, such as peanuts and raisins, is an enjoyable experience. These staged visual narratives are a personal souvenir of childhood fare, as well as the mess—still life—that happens when serving food to innocents. I take my inspiration from the disordered daily arrangements created by the absent individuals and the resulting evidence of interrupted clean-up attempts.