I like to create sculptures in clay because I like being able to make clean cut things with my hands. But I can also make lumpy, bumpy pieces just depending on how I feel and how the project is going. The freedom of being able to create whatever I feel and turn my emotions into a sculpture is why I do what I do. I like to create things with a story behind them or a meaning so people who look at my piece can get a sense of why I created it.

Before creating a piece I usually get inspiration through something that is happening in the world or something that happened to me or even a topic that I feel strongly about. My main form of creating things is slab building, where I roll out huge slabs of clay and carefully shape them to fit the form I desire. While building "twisted love" I carefully cut slabs and shaped them and fit them together so that the two separate towers would become one complete sculpture. Also a unique element to this project was the textured spray paint, it added an element that brought everything together even though I used two different colors.

From my slab building that carried meaning with me , I turned to something I never tried before... I sculpted a chicken in effigy form using pinch pots and attaching applique. Half of the chicken is "alive" and the other half is "fried" and is a small portion in a bigger project I am working on. It is supposed to bring light on animal cruelty in meat factories and how we mistreat our animals in very gruesome and disgusting ways. There will be two other parts to this project and with them it will be complete.