So, is it pronounced “in the mud”? Yes.
Is it pronounced “in the mood”? Also, yes.

As a recovering therapist and word-play enthusiast, I couldn’t resist naming my work after the intersection of two important callings for me. (Hey - in case you didn’t know, pottery is typically made from mud. Isn’t that cool?)

I aim to make colorful and emotionally evocative pieces to function in your home as useable art. I believe color is joyful, enriching, and anti-fascist. I am on a personal mission to de-grayscale my life, and I invite you to join me. Let me just say that white, black, gray and other neutrals are absolutely beautiful colors! They are just not the only colors. Sometime in the last century I think we were made to believe that these are the grown-up colors that we get to work with. On their own, they don’t inherently represent maturity, class, order, productivity and other capitalistic ideals. I just don’t think thats accurate or fair. It’s overly limiting. Color allows us to express ourselves through seasons of our life. Color has the power to represent many deep parts of ourselves: personality, desire, interest, ambition, memory, and so on…

When I say “evocative” pottery, I mean to say that absolutely any feeling or mood has a seat at the table. While this idea of dopamine-ware has been at the forefront of my mind, we of course cannot maintain a sunny disposition all of the time. Many of our rituals take place over ceramic vessels. We gather with our loved ones and laugh over coffee. We recover from illness with a warm tea. We nourish with bowls, plates, cups, mugs. We admire flowers strewn in vases. Ceramics are high traffic items in our homes, connecting us to centuries of peoples who have made similar vessels from the earth. Curating a collection of vessels that speak to a part of you is a way to enrich those daily rituals that otherwise may fly by. You have the right to cherish the vessels that nourish you.

When we have the opportunity to fill our home with pieces of functional ware that represent a part of who we are, it is an offer to connect with ourselves and others. It is the opportunity to share and expose a part of yourself that may otherwise stay concealed.