With the utilization of stoneware clay through personal feelings and tensions, I am able to create pieces that allow myself to be present. Toggling between sculptural and functional pieces, I am focusing on a process that is centered in my own repetitiveness, responsiveness and releasing pressures and boundaries set by others and myself. In creating pieces that have a looseness, but still permit a form of resistance, help to balance the internal struggles I hold due to the clay body’s own grit and unpredictable nature. By being at the wheel and sitting with my own thoughts, it furthers a foundation with not only myself, but an intergenerational tie between my great-grandmother and I. Talking with her when throwing gives me a sense of peace and comfort, especially in knowing she had a love for ceramics herself.