I create art to understand and rebuild history—each piece carries memory, ritual, and healing.
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I love creating ceramic dolls and sculptural forms that merge body-memory, myth, and restoration. My work explores expressive distortion and artifact history, blending slip casting with installation-level ceramics to reveal beauty in what’s been broken.
Where do you find inspiration?I’ve loved dolls since childhood—I was obsessed with Barbie and the worlds she opened for me. Later, I received a vast dollmaking collection from someone outside my family, and it felt like destiny. I find inspiration in taking things apart and putting them back together, in the way dolls teach care, imagination, and identity, and in the quiet rituals of grief and renewal that shape both life and clay.
What would you do with $25,000?I would fund a healing studio that blends ceramic art, dollmaking, and community care—a space where people can take apart their own histories, examine them safely, and rebuild something whole. It would host workshops, restoration projects, and a junior dollmaking program to keep the lost art alive
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