Morningstar Mud

I love yellow, donuts and my fat cat Vesper. My hobbies include making peanut butter, carrying my cat up into my studio loft, and smiling. 

Lined paper has been in my life for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I drew all over it. I scrawled lists and scribbles. I have carefully folded it into love letters, wrinkled it with use, and torn bits for silly notes and gum wrappers. I use it to organize life, and store memories. Lined paper is familiar, nostalgic, comfortable, but often unacknowledged in day to day life.

I enjoy the magic of trompe l'oeil as I manipulate porcelain to mimic the normalcy of notebook paper, creating the comfort of blue and red lines, the placement of binder holes, and the inevitable frayed edge. I find beauty in the folds, wrinkles and waviness of used paper.

I started creating porcelain notebook papers out of a need to find and see importance in each day, and communicate outside of myself in a physical way. Each porcelain paper features journal notes and fleeting moments from a day in my life, now forever special and permanent. The notes vary on the emotional spectrum of life, but all are significant moments I never want to forget. They are my brain and my heart in physical form.