Making is my first language. I come from creatives that use visual, performative, and literary arts to express themselves. My thoughts and feelings are best shared through slowly crafted objects that help to disarm defensive responses I encounter when using the predominant language of the region I inhabit. I seek moments of respite from the struggle and choose to highlighting beauty, comfort, quite, and humor. My objects become relics of time, space, and potential, born from an insatiable need to create with a yearning for processes and materials that demand my hands work to quiet my mind. I tell stories with my objects by capturing my experiences and translating them into the language I best know how to use.