2026

 Ceramics, dried black eyed peas, cotton seeds, hot sauce, my grandmother’s trinkets, needle and thread, celadon glaze, my mother's ashes fired into the glaze, ashes from my ancestral altar practice fired into the glaze, wood, Kale plants, Collard plants, Lemon Balm plants, Tulsi plants, Chamomile plants 

Through the form and subtle textures, the small offerings it contains, and the live plants to be tended, Sow, Nurture, Harvest embodies ideas of generational care, inherited knowledge, and the material and spiritual practice of creating. The seedpod vessels are open to receive and reveal, holding objects of personal and cultural significance- dried black eyed peas, my mother’s ashes, needle and thread, my grandmother’s jewelry, ashes collected from my ancestral altar, a photograph of my mother as a child, a hot sauce bottle- alongside open spaces for continued growth, the unnamed, the future, where the live plants invoke a practice of tending and care. The work speaks to things we plant in each other, the stories we tend, and the pieces of ourselves we leave behind. Representing practices of care, remembrance, and mothering.

Ceramic, soil, wood, dried black eyed peas, preserved collard green leaf, water, celadon glaze, my mother's ashes and ashes from my ancestral altar fired into the glaze 

What We Hold  explores lineage, inherited knowledge, and the quiet labor of care passed through generations in my family. Similar to Sow, Nurture, Harvest, the form, subtle textures, and the small offerings it carries, What We Hold embodies these ideas. The seedpod vessels are open to receive and  to reveal, holding objects of - dried black eyed peas, water, my mother’s ashes, preserved collard green leaves, ashes collected from my ancestral altar- alongside open spaces for continued growth and the future. The work speaks to things we plant in each other, the stories we tend, and the pieces of ourselves we leave behind. Representing practices of care, remembrance, and mothering.