I like to work with my hands and to tell stories. My work is both figurative and literary, in the sense of telling a story. I make reference to sculptural traditions that can be traced back to the small figurative sculptures made by Meissen, Hummel and other iconic images drawn from cartoons and heroic sculpture, but on a smaller scale. The raw clay shaped into these figures, sometimes combined with other materials, and the stories they tell, create different layers of meaning and interpretation, which speaks to who we are to each other and to ourselves.