Ceramics

2026

Church

This piece, patterned off a classical catholic church tower, originally had nine tiers, but the seventh tier broke. This imperfect and numerologically unlucky omen led to its fallen nature.

Scraper

This piece was an exploration of flake making. Layering thin strips of clay on one another has been a throughline of my ceramic practice and with this piece I wanted to test it maximally. It is the first time these flakes have been blue,. The form of this piece was meant to resemble to boring prism shapes of the towers that surrounded me at all times in New Yory. Skyscrapers. Both the city and this piece brought many challenges (I actually made this piece twice after the first attempt exploded while being fired) so it was fallen.

Me

With a base of seventeen ceramic train spikes and a topper of a perfect egg, this piece from head to toe embodies me. I planned to have it fallen, but felt it was unecessary to do so. This piece’s structural integrity might be the most precarious, but I like how it is the only one in my posession left standing.

Spindle

I hated this tower. No story behind it, was first to fall.

Lighthouse

I love lighthouses and realized tha they were the only exposure to towers I got as a child. I saw so many in my upbringing and seek them out on every coast I visit. This piece sold to a friend and is no longer in my posession.

Little One

Meant to resemble the wooden blocks I played with as a kid, this little tower was the first tower patrons saw upon entering my room on my half birthday. It still stands, but even if it toppled, it could be put back together because of its robust and rudimentarily stacked nature. It’s kind of an outlier.

2025

Laptop

2024

A New Piece

A New Piece was created after my dual-senior thesis and represents the sculptural direction that I desire to create within. The ceramic component of this sculpture is influenced by the female transgender figure as well as the first Paleolithic sculptural representation of a woman, Vénus Impudique. Balancing on top of a rudimentarily welded steel pedestal, this piece has experienced some damage from traveling, resulting in the loss of the ceramic figure’s head.

2023

Hatchling

Hatchling is a hangable sculpture from The Mall. I appropriated the image of a young Lady Gaga, my ongoing symbol of self, in clay by screen printing the image onto a white slab using red slip. This technique, although used before in history, came to me in a dream. The egg-shaped form is bordered with the motif of ceramic flakes seen throughout my work.

Hatchling was originally meant to be displayed in one piece, but out of my control, it cracked in two during its second round of firing. This obviously reshaped the piece as well as my hand in creating it.

The screen printed image in the middle of the egg symbolizes myself in incubation before transitioning. Like a young Lady Gaga before her explosion of manifested fulfillment, this image embodies how much potential my incubi self possessed. This piece splitting down the middle now commemorates my coming out as a transgender woman rather than my stagnancy in utero.

A Weapon

A Weapon, originally used in the A Night in the Chapel showcase, was later installed as a stagnant sculpture in The Mall. This piece was born from my ceramic motif of layering flakes of clay to resemble the flaking texture of decomposed skin; specifically that of energetically-saturated body objects encased within Catholic reliquaries. The hollow form is glazed to resemble the color of red clay before it is fired. Affixed with twine, a found train spike acts as a handle for this sculpture.

A Weapon was carried as a purse during the runway showcase, A Night In The Chapel. This piece, among others in the show, physically embodied the heavy baggage that women constantly hold with them. A Weapon specifically portrays how the baggage one holds can sometimes evolve dangerously, able to inflict pain against them or outwardly. The model who wore this piece received several scrapes on her leg from the piece’s jaggedly flaked exterior rubbing against her as she walked.

Jessica

This piece, originally used in the A Night in the Chapel showcase, was later installed as a stagnant sculpture in The Mall. Jessica is a ceramically rendered transgender Jesus. She is made hollow out of glazed clay with pigmented attention to her palms, ribs and feet. She has a full head of human hair as well as eyelash extensions. With gratitude to the late artist, Greer Lankton, the female transgender form is one that I continue to work from.

Jessica was installed and interacted with in several different ways throughout my senior thesis. In her first unveiling in A Night In The Chapel, Jessica was held by my depiction of Mother Maria in the classical “Pieta” position. Later stolen out of her hands by Precious, Jessica was handled with little care and inevitably lost her right arm. In The Mall, Jessica was installed lying down comfortably, existing as the focal point of my show’s composition in her manger made of ostrich feather, canvas and unraveled doll hair originally encased in plastic.

Incubating in Holy Water

Incubating in Holy Water acted as a welcoming vessel for the patrons of The Mall to use before entering the exhibition sale. Created by screen printing colored slip onto white clay, the image of a young Lady Gaga stares at its viewers below the surface of a pool of holy water. On the left of this vessel’s rim is an abstraction of my recurring ceramic motif of flaking clay. In this piece, these flakes are layered circularly onto each other to create floral ornamentation.

Jessica’s Predecessor

Originally used in the A Night in the Chapel showcase, this piece was later installed as a stagnant sculpture in The Mall. Jessica’s Predecessor is a ceramic piece born from the idea of creating a free-standing purse handle made of clay. It possesses my flake motif on its brim and is glazed in the same hues as Jessica.
Meant to resemble a classically-shaped accessory, this piece acted as a mere filler for the model wearing Precious to hold before she inevitably replaced it in her stealing of the piece, Jessica.