Ceramics Portfolio

2025

Dine with us

2024

Stump

Revolution Tea set

2023

When pigs fly

Dine With Us - 2025

Row of gray ceramic helmets with faces, plates, and mugs with faces

A combination of wheel thrown and hand-built pieces, fired to cone 6 oxidation. “Dine With Us” is a characterized five place table setting complete with cups, plates, spoons, coffee/tea pots, and dinner attire (helmets).

This set is, in a way, a tribute to immaturity and uncouthness – body humor, insults, and the humorously uncomfortable. The pieces are interactive: the dishware (of course) usable, the tea and coffee pots functional, and the faces are meant to be adorned. The table is set as characters, each of whom have different personalities, different lives, and different perspectives. To partake in this set, you are invited to eat not with them, but as them. We so often judge from the outside, but external judgment is useless to experience. We are all immature and uncomfortable in our own ways, no matter how adamantly we may believe otherwise – this set asks you to be on display as such, to feel uncomfortable and immature (perhaps enjoyably, perhaps not) as you sit in the company of shit-eating grins, penis coffee, and booger eaters. Won’t you please pick up a helmet and join us?

Smiling lower face and shoulder mask with spikes behind a smiling mug on plate.

Helmet with feet sitting beside a mug and a plate with a spoon.

Helmet with large nose beside mug with lip handle on a plate.

Mask with huge smiling mouth beside a mug with a mouth on a plate.

Helmet with big teeth and finger horns beside mug with fingers as legs on a plate.

Ceramic coffee pot with a face, feet, and penis spout.

Stack of ceramic plates with yellow and brown glaze.

Two ceramic coffee pots with penis spouts beside a lid with finger handle and a coffee pot extension.

Top view of a ceramic helmet with big nose, fingers, and spikes.

A ceramic plate that says "Eat Shit" in red letters.

Top view of a ceramic helmet with feet, a face, and devil horns.

Ceramic coffee pot with arms, legs, and penis spout beside lid with fingers.

Side view of ceramic helmet with big teeth, finger horns, and spikes.

Bottom of a gray and brown ceramic plate inscribed with "ZEWJ."

Back of a mask with three large spikes coming out of it.

Stump - 2024

“Stump” is a large, multi-functional sculptural piece inspired by forest floor rot - decaying wood, fallen trees, mushrooms and mycelial networks, puddles, dripping water, moss, and lichen. “Stump” is not yet completed - the pockets extending from the sides of the piece are planting vessels, which will be filled with a variety of different shade-loving plants. At completion, it will hold seven different species and function as a living sculpture. Standing a little over two feet tall with a surface about a foot-and-a-half wide, “Stump” is large enough and strong enough to serve as a small table or sitting stool. It was entirely slab built, except for extruded interior supports (not visible in pictures). It was built in three weeks and fired as one piece, suffering from some cracking and structural damage in the process (a project from my undergrad, my ambitions outweighed the capacity for proper drying within the deadline). “Stump” was fired to Cone 6 in oxidation and used seven individual glazes in various overlapping combinations.

Large brown, black, dark orange, and blue ceramic sculpture with side pockets for plants.

Large brown, black, green, and blue ceramic sculpture with three pockets on one side and two pockets on the opposite side.

Large brown, black, gray, green, and blue ceramic sculpture with side pockets for plants.

Large brown, black, dark orange, gray, and blue ceramic sculpture with side pockets for plants.

Close up on two small blue pockets on large ceramic sculpture.

Large brown, black, dark orange, gray, and blue ceramic sculpture with three small side pockets and one large pocket for plants.

French Revolution Tea Set - 2024

Ceramic guillotine with four teacups hanging off hooks on sides.

This hand-built breakfast set is inspired by the art and symbols associated with the French Revolution. The dishware and decoration are styled after Sèvres porcelain, a porcelain manufacturer then owned by the French crown. This type of porcelain would have been used by the French court, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, at the time of and preceding the French Revolution. This set is primarily slab built, featuring four teacups, four coffee mugs, six plates, and a guillotine serving stand with a movable blade. The flowers and images used as surface decoration are overglaze transfer decals. The coffee mugs each depict a painting associated with the French Revolution: The Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David; Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution, William Hamilton; Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix (actually depicting the July Revolution of 1830, commonly and incorrectly thought to depict the French Revolution); The Storming of the Bastille, Henry Singleton. This set was fired to Cone 6 oxidation, then re-fired for the overglaze decals.

Front of white ceramic guillotine with red glaze spattered like blood.

White ceramic guillotine with chain pulled taut and guillotine blade pulled up.

White teacup with red rim and floral decals on a white plate with same floral decals.

Line of four dainty white teacups with red rims and yellow floral decals.

Row of four sturdy coffee mugs with images of paintings on the fronts.

Close up of dainty white teacup with red rim and yellow flower decals.

When Pigs Fly - 2023

This piece is an enlarged replica of a small glass pig figure, transformed into a keepsakes pot. Entirely hand-built, mostly utilizing a coil building technique, this piece was fired to Cone 6 in oxidation.

Back of a light pink pig sculpture with curly tail and wings.

Light pink pig sculpture with wings and a big nose.

Light pink pig sculpture with round legs, big nose, little eyes, wings, and big floppy ears.

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