Hello! My name is Hope and I am a ceramic artist who makes art with drawings/paintings/ and photos on ceramic forms about change and defining what home really is. Whether that’s something built with the people around you, a specific place or one’s own self. As a kid, trying to gain the feeling of security was a large struggle, home was the biggest feeling I was trying to understand so in my earlier 2D work I tried to mask my emotions making it about things I thought was pretty. Now I can finally dive into my actual emotions and experiences with my work. I typically use thrown ceramic forms as my canvas and a hand-built element (the chains) to the exterior as an added extension of what I am saying in each piece. I believe that I can break barriers of what it means to be an artist by making art that relates to experiences people have also gone through as well as myself.