Art making brings me closer to the magical relationships between narrative, grief, and the personal object. Through painting, drawing, and hand-built ceramics, I excavate memory, creating works that explore how sentiment, pattern, and everyday objects shape the stories we inherit and carry forward.

Centered around themes of food, comfort, and honoring, my practice considers Jewish identity, cultural ritual, absurdity, intimacy, mourning, and isolation. As I move between the real and imagined landscapes of memory, I return to found objects and intergenerational touchstones shared with my grandfather: matzo ball soup, a silver bowl of deli pickles, and other ordinary rituals of care. These remembered forms are transformed into painted ceramic sculptures and vessels —offerings that honor inheritance, embody tenderness, and reflect on the ways care is carried across generations.

Writing is the starting point for every piece. I revisit memories of intimate conversations, fragments of songs, and reflections on loved ones who have passed. These words linger like melodies, resurfacing in moments of quiet before taking visual form. They emerge as familiar objects scattered throughout my compositions: record sleeves, bottles of wine, text messages glowing on a phone screen, ceramic hamantaschen, an illuminated yahrzeit candle. Together, these everyday artifacts become offerings that bridge memory, grief, and comfort.

Across my paintings and ceramic works, ordinary objects become vessels for remembrance. Repeated patterns, flattened perspectives, and cherished symbols invite viewers to pause, recognize something of themselves, and reflect on the quiet rituals through which we care for one another. Each object becomes a small act of devotion holding tenderness, humor, and the enduring possibility of connection.