The Crucible series urges a conversation between individual and global moments, touching on intimate aspects of this relationship. The porous connection between a lived experience to the far-reaching environment is portrayed through domestic, material manifestations. The artist’s own souvenirs, inherited objects, and hand-built ceramics interface with instances of environmental disaster and geo-planetary disruption. Crucible for inundating and disintegrating pulls imagery from the 2020
Jiangxi, China floods, yellow microplastics, and a broken porcelain vessel from an original cast of light bulb packaging.