My artistic practice is grounded in figurative ceramic sculpture and engages critically with the classical Greco-Roman tradition. Centering the male body, my work confronts and complicates canonical ideals inherited from Western art history. Working at three-quarters to life-size, my ceramic sculptures and installations assert a bodily presence that invites a contemplative, emotionally resonant viewer experience.

Each hollow form is slowly built by hand through the ceramic technique of pinching—a method that requires sustained attention and an ongoing dialogue with the clay. This intimate exchange between hand and material shapes both the physical figure and my conceptual approach. Through making, I seek to enter into dialogue with past and present queer and feminist craftspeople. Informed by their sensitivity to material and their resistance to pervasive, objectifying gazes, I aim to contribute to a lineage that embraces a holistic representation grounded in personal subjectivity and vulnerability.

Drawing on art history and gender theory, I look backward to move forward. I use clay to examine how masculinity is formed through personal and collective histories, and my lived experience as a gay man grounds this inquiry in the subtleties of intimacy, tenderness, and self-reflection. Ultimately, my sculptures strive to depict masculinity not as idealized or monumental, but as lived—embodied, complex, and open to being seen.