I am trying to steal back time. I dedicate weeks to portrait works in an attempt to encapsulate vital moments of appreciation and honor in subjects’ lives for them. I design mingei-inspired crystalline-glazed, functional ceramic pieces that use heavy metals to scrawl the story of their 24-hour firings in blooming, scintillating crystals across their surfaces. My knitworks are a testament to hours of love and intention, following my jewish family's needlework tradition.

Time recurs in my work as the most precious thing we have to share with one another. I consider my pieces to be more than projects, but often services to fellow working and poor people who also experience the relentless need for more time than they have. I am genuinely honored when people spend a little of that sacred time experiencing the ceramics and textiles made for that purpose.

My works are a way to honor my own time as more than its equivalence in wage, too; to carve out a space in the world where I have the freedom to lean into the impulse to move and act, to feel and fixate on a high quality finish, to communicate something with a fidelity that spoken language fails to preserve. Each piece is a little bubble of freedom for the duration of its making.