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Always so

January in Aspen is a season marked by powerful sensations– of cold, of vast beauty, of extreme darkness and light, of environmental stillness contrasting with the town’s vibrancy. Winter in the mountains is a time of unpredictable challenges and beauty, but inevitably it tethers us to a geologic time scale that extends immeasurably beyond our daily lives. 

My process seeks to permanentize fleeting moments through the collection of local flora at the height of its growing season, which I cast in porcelain and fire. This causes a transformation in clay through which the ephemeral becomes something enduring. The culminating works become reflections of frozen moments in time within an endless cycle of change. “Always So” reflects the sensory experience of a January in Aspen as a season of grandeur, endurance, and powerful energetic collisions, and speaks to our intimate positions within an infinite timescale. It calls us into the present moment and simultaneously extends beyond us, a reminder that;

“There was never any more inception than there is now,

Nor any more youth or age than there is now;

And will never be any more perfection than there is now,

Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now”

-Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”

View: Aspen Collective Gallery

Press: “Intricate porcelain sculptures born out of winter” Aspen Daily News