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Among the Living

 In 2022, I won a Resiliency Residency Grant from the Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund to support the creation of a new body of experimental sculpture. These works began during the pandemic and its aftermath. I began crafting clay sculptures that wound like roots seeking water underground, without a true top or bottom. These sculptures reflected disorientation and uncertainty and tested the limits of my material. I invited more risk into my creative practice, accepting “failures” as I tested the limits of the clay’s weight, balance and fragility. My project culminated with a solo exhibition of free standing, wall mounted and hanging ceramic and fiber artworks at 1415 Gallery. Among the Living examined life cycles and interconnection, inviting viewers to reflect on what it means to be alive now, what we must sustain and what we hope to survive. Among the Living asked viewers to consider that we are our ecosystem, not separate from it - that we’re interdependent with the earth and all its elements and inhabitants. 

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“Hope then to belong to your place by your own knowledge of what it is that no other place is, and by your caring for it as you care for no other place”  Wendell Berry

I work as an independent potter and organize three community projects in Albuquerque, NM. Albuquerque is a creative and collaborative city that does much with little. We rely on each other to share resources, leverage support and build networks. Our artists are responsive to and reflective of each other- more cooperative than competitive. I am gratified to work with a talented and tireless team of growers, vintners, chefs, writers, dancers, musicians, poets, event planners, marketers, community organizers and other artists.