My work offers a human response to how we progress through life with notions of luck and fate in our collective consciousness. By combining words with delicate porcelain chain link and ceramic objects, a story is woven reflecting what we both lose and gain at different times in our life. I continue to question how, why and where we end up in life; is it good fortune, destiny or the result of choice?

In the past I have added found parts including books, metal roof tiles and plumb bobs into the artwork to create a juxtaposition between new and old, ceramic and cloth, metal and wax. The materials I work with are paired together creating a dichotomy of textures; rough with smooth, gooey with clean while sometimes leaving the mark of my fingers. The visceral quality of a smooth, silky ceramic texture next to a surface melting with encaustic offers the viewer another layer of information, forming multiple meanings in the artwork.