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This ceramic plate uses sgraffito techniques to depict a tiny version of my cat Cutie sleeping soundly on the leaf of a Lily of the Valley flower.

This piece showcase the stages of a deer’s decomposition over the course of the four seasons. This four tumbler set uses sgraffito, monoprint and stencil surface design techniques.

The Memory Vessel pulls imagery from my childhood including screen-printed illustrations such as my brother and I enjoying a cardboard box more than what came in it, Me cuddling up to my new giant teddy bear I received for Christmas and a recreation of the first piece I had in an art show what I was seven. The nonprinted stars resemble the glow in the dark ones that are still hung on my ceiling from my youth. The color pallet itself is elementary as it draws from the primary hues which ads to the theme of childlike wonder and innocence. Finally, this vessel has just enough room to allow two flowers to be displayed as homage to my brother.

Relics of song is based off of a short fable I wrote:

There once was a great Dragon with the most beautiful of scales, most elegant of wings and most spectacular horns, but most incredible of it all was the dragons tune they would whistle with fire and smoke across all of the deep valleys and tall mountain peaks. They would flutter and flap singing their tune so all the forest could hear.

One day as the Dragon soared above the sun lit sky the Dragon came across a voice…perhaps more beautiful than their own. Landing in a clearing the Dragon wanted to find who was singing such song. So they asked the Bear, “do you sing freely in this forest”? “Nay,” replied the Bear. “My voice knows only to roar with great fear”. So the Dragon asked the Fox, “do you sing freely in this forest”? “Nay”, the Fox snarked. “I snicker and whistle but sing I cannot”.

Out from the hole of a log squeezed a Mouse no bigger than a single Dragons claw. “By no means is this measly mouse the source of such serenade” thought the Dragon. With smoke seeping out their nose the Dragon turned to the Mouse to ask “do you sing freely in this forest”? The mouse meekly replied, “yes great Dragon, I sing for all, as you have for me”. The Dragons gaze softened, “Let us sing together then”. With a deep breath their tune gathered all from the forest, those from low valleys, and others atop the mountain peaks to listen in on the harmony at way.