Artist Statement

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​​I used to believe art was about control. Drawing, carving, firing — each discipline seemed to demand mastery, the hand guiding the material toward an idea already formed in the mind. Clay taught me otherwise. The more I worked with it, the more I realised the material has its own language, its own memory, its own will. I was not imposing myself on it; I was in dialogue. That shift，from control to conversation，changed everything.

 

The world I make work in today is not the world I trained in. A pandemic reshaped how we connect. Artificial intelligence is reframing what human skill means, what human presence is worth. I am less interested in mastering outcomes than in creating the conditions for genuine exchange between myself and the material, between the work and its audience, between people who are similar in their uniqueness.

 

I believe art is one of the few places where we can still practise what machines cannot: sitting with another person's experience, letting ourselves be inspired by it, and making something that testifies to that inspiration. That is the work I am committed to now. Not mastery. Not control. Connection. And the slow, patient act of building it, day after day.