I have always had an interest in cartoon illustration. As a child I would watch cartoons and read comics extensively which turned into me eventually creating them myself, I usually work in pen and ink, with occasional gouache, but recently I have begun to really delve into ceramics. What really interests me about ceramics is that I can take my characters that I draw and bring them into an interactive environment. I can put detail into every angle, and actually really flesh them out in physical space. My main emphasis is on depicting emotions. Showing emotions through my characters is probably my favorite thing about creating, there is something that is just very exciting about successfully depicting an emotion with as few pen strokes as possible. This is why a lot of my art emphasizes larger than life faces, and many of them. I have recently taken an interest in seeing how far I can stretch, and bastardize the human face without losing any of the character, and emotion it communicates. I emphasize this in my ceramics specifically with my towers of warped floppy faces stacked and teetering over themselves. Caricatures are often seen as less than high art, but the love I have for creating them makes me want to take them into a broader art space, and that is my goal with my ceramic sculptures, to broaden the scope in which my characters can be seen, and interacted with, and to emphasize how strange, and off-putting they are in our actual physical space.