A Return to Instinct

There is a state of being that exists before ambition, before productivity, before the relentless demand to justify our existence through output. My work is a sustained argument that we have not lost access to this primal intuition, just been disconnected from it by social conditioning.

My multi-disciplinary practice spans large-scale paintings and ceramics that begin as functional forms and end as something else entirely. My work takes up space. It returns again and again to the same territory: the female form, the rhythms of the natural world, and everything a hyper-productive, hyper-masculine culture has taught us to reject. Emotion, intuition, beauty, whimsy, and the female body.

That conviction shows up most visibly in my palette. Where the dominant culture asks for restraint, I answer with hot pink, bright turquoise, metallic gold, and glitter. Not decoration, but declaration. Each exaggerated hue is a deliberate rejection of the self-editing a capitalist, patriarchal world demands of us.

My process flows from the same magic. I gather seashells and other found objects on the beach, let clay lead, and build entire visual worlds from the uninhibited first brushstrokes of my four-year-old child. I use their unmediated mark-making as both foundation and methodology. Where an adult hand reaches for correction, a child's reaches for color. That instinct is what I am trying to recover: not innocence, but the radical freedom of creating before socialization closes in around us.

Not a retreat from the world, but a reconnection to the one that existed before capitalism and Western rationality drew a line between us and her.

My practice is just starting to expand beyond the studio. I am building toward spaces where art-making, movement, and ancient wisdom come together: yoga classes, community craft groups, and eventually retreats rooted in the same instinct that drives my work. If that world speaks to you, stay close. The invitation is coming.