Inspired by my family’s history as refugees—from North Africa to Italy—I explore shifting terrains where meaning is reconstructed across time and place. 

I experiment with both material and form by using only hand-foraged clays in place of industrial clays, pigments and glazes, grounding the work on soils gathered across continents I have migrated through.  

Material becomes both medium and meaning, the signifier and signified, linking soil to memory, displacement, and identity.

Vinton, VA