As a Christian visual artist, I am inspired by theology and the ways in which art communicates our beliefs about God, others, and our personal experiences of living as embodied spiritual beings.

Through engaging with two of the most foundational materials of our natural world - clay and glass - I create mosaic and stained glass art, using my hands to shape, form, rearrange, and reimagine broken materials into prayerful narratives. Through my art making practice, I am working through the emotions of wholehearted living, creating physical representations of my gratitude, doubts, questions, fears, and joys.

Making and witnessing art actively heals, confronts, soothes, protests, reveals, and transforms. It is an act of prayer that invites us to ask hard questions and cultivate the patience to not settle for simple, incomplete, or false answers.

The ordinary places of our lives feel predictable, familiar and comfortable - until the moment they are, quite suddenly, not. God responds in miraculous and surprising ways, creatively interrupting our routines with tangible reminders of beauty, kindness, and mercy.

By creating art, I am looking for, and discovering, small glimmers and surprising bursts of hope in our everyday lives.