PorTfolio
Aside from the mostly smaller functional work in my shop, I also make multimedia pieces for gallery shows, furniture, and abstract sculptures. Here are some of my favorites that I’m really proud of :)
Shattered Light
2025
Stoneware, found broken tempered car window glass, LED lights
7” x 7” x 4”
These lamps are made from San Francisco, with all its fractures, its light, and its contradictions. The bases are wheel-thrown stoneware. The orbs above are shaped by broken car window glass I collected while walking through San Francisco, where the sparkle of shattered glass on the sidewalk is so common it feels like part of the landscape, ordinary but beautiful in the right light.
Life in San Francisco means constantly navigating through contrast: fog and sun, grief and joy, intimacy and isolation, wealth and poverty, destruction and growth. Over the past eight years, San Francisco has helped me gather up the broken pieces of myself, not to return to something whole but to become something new: still fractured, but functional, and luminous in my own way.
This work is a meditation on survival and adaptation, on finding worth in what has been discarded, on shaping warmth out of sharpness and impact. San Francisco can be a hard city, but also one full of grace if you know where to look. The lamps glow with the quiet romance of life here: tender, volatile, and unexpectedly beautiful. Their light reminds us that even in the midst of rupture, something radiant can emerge.
Exhibitions
2025
7x7: A Ceramaganza at Aquatic Park,
COL Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Juried by Sarah Duyer
Chapters
2024
Stoneware, rope, embroidery
43” x 23”
This piece explores the journey through life's chapters and how they shape our identity. Significant events such as graduating, moving, changing jobs, global events, medical diagnoses, and the start or end of relationships mark the transitions between chapters. The nature of life is messy and abstract, but moments of clarity signal the start or end of a chapter. There is complexity in processing the grief of change—mourning what has ended while feeling excitement for what lies ahead. While change can be daunting, it’s through these changes that we grow, carrying forward memories and knowledge to enrich the next chapter.
Exhibitions
2024
CHRONICLE: A Collection on Time and Memory, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, Juried by Don Santos
Transition
2023
Stoneware
Commission
Through the transitions of life, some things change while many stay the same. Transition traces this journey in clay from something rough and sharp into something smooth, open, and beautiful. The form shifts, but the color palette remains constant, reflecting the truth that metamorphosis is not the creation of someone new, but the emergence of who was always there. The handles speak to the hands of community that hold us through that becoming, and the hole at the center offers what transformation makes possible: clarity, openness, and the ability to finally see through to the other side.
Side Table No. 2
2023
Stoneware, glass
After proving to myself that I could make furniture from clay, I began iterating on my designs and scaling up in size. Side Table No. 2 is built around a simple structural truth: the ceramic form needs three points of contact to create the most stable base for glass. Here, those three points are expressed through an organic shape that folds inward, balancing stability with a lighter physical presence. Carved lines follow and emphasize the form, adding visual interest without ornament.
The inside is finished in a matte blue-green glaze, chosen to echo the color glass takes on at its edges from the presence of iron oxide. The outside remains raw, with clear glaze reserved only for the carved lines — letting the natural beauty of the clay body speak for itself.
Side Table No. 1
2023
Stoneware, glass
My obsession with furniture design solidified when I visited Denmark for the first time in 2017. Since then, I dreamed of designing and making furniture of my own. I felt limited by my lack of experience with traditional building techniques but I decided to use the ceramics skills and resources I had to make furniture on my own terms that was authentic to my creative expression. Side Table No. 1 acted as a proof-of-concept to prototype my idea for a ceramic table before venturing into more complex designs.
Family Tree
2022
Stoneware
This piece is a visual record of where I come from. Starting from the bottom ring with myself, it branches upward through my parents, grandparents, and generations of ancestors stretching back to the mid-1800s. It is a reminder that no person arrives fully formed from nothing: every part of who I am has been shaped by both people I know and by people I have never met, lives I can only partially know. The rough texture holds that truth: ancestry marks us, weathers us, makes us and yet we are not only what we inherit. We are the sum of all of it, and something entirely our own.
Big Planter
2021
Stoneware
After 5 years of making small functional pieces, I challenged myself to go big. Getting out of my comfort zone inspired lots of new sculptural and functional work at a larger scale.
Giraffe
2001
Stoneware
I made this when I was 6 years old :)
