By engaging the viewer to look within – rather than outside – a vessel, these new works will invite one to pause and explore the intricacies of nature. This piece explores how time, weather, and water erode and soften rocks on the shoreline. The culminating work – vessels revealing interior, rather than exterior, patterns – inverts traditional ceramic expectations and invites viewers into a contemplative relationship with my work. This conceptual framework advances ceramic practice by challenging conventional approaches to vessel forms and surfaces.

In my work I explore craft, personal history, and storytelling through blown glass. Inspired by my lifelong journaling habit, I create objects as one would journal entries, using traditional glassblowing and lampworking, I channel my emotions and thoughts in to the molten glass, transforming it into a visual diary of myself in that moment. The goal of this work is to elevate craft through personal expression, using glass as a reflective medium for thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Like a written journal, each vessel holds intimate reflections—words and fragmentsof my life captured in glass.