Coralium Sculpture

I sculpt to explore identity. Each piece reflects the tension between my fear of abandonment and my need for control, my desire for intimacy and my fear of engulfment. The intersection of containment and freedom is a critical challenge for me because I construct each piece freehand without the use of a wheel or mold. And I work only in porcelain because of its purity. I am seeking the viewers involvement through a sense of animation. The shapes grow alongside one another and then shift and slide apart. The viscous mergings separate into distinct autonomous forms. The densely layered patterns and textures undulate across the bone-white forms. These organic vessels with their seductive openings draw the viewer into hollow abysses and the sharp tentacles snake in, around, and through them are sensual and frightening. Each piece conceals and reveals; each is both assertive and yielding, aggressive and pliant, and repeating patterns in different directions accentuate the tension between the convexities and concavities and create visual and tactile dissonance. Like me, my sculptures are simultaneously familiar and alien, concealing and revealing.