MOUTH OF WIND series

“Every time we share a story it lives for another generation.”
artist’s father

Mouth of Wind is a ceramic series rooted in the belief that stories are living things. They travel, shift, and survive through the people willing to carry them.

Growing up in New Orleans, I learned that history is never confined to books or museums. It lives in family homes, in friendships and community spaces, and in the quiet retelling of memories passed between generations. Tradition is not static, it breathes through conversation.

This body of work explores the vessel as both object and witness. Each ceramic form becomes a mouth, a keeper of voices, a place where memory can be held and released. Through glaze movement, surface shifts, and organic inclusions that often evolve, I allow the material to participate in its own storytelling. The unpredictability mirrors human exchange: conversations wander, histories fracture, memories blur, and meaning is often found in what was never planned.

Mouth of Wind asks viewers to consider who carries their stories. Who taught them where they come from? Whose voice shaped their understanding of family, culture, and belonging? And perhaps more urgently, who will carry those stories forward?

I want people to leave this work feeling compelled to reconnect, to call a relative, revisit a memory, ask a parent a question, listen longer to a neighbor, or preserve a memory before it disappears. Whenever we share our stories, we extend their lives, allowing them to move beyond us and into the hands of the next generation. And if they cannot identify someone holding those stories for them, then perhaps it is their turn to become that person, to speak, to remember, and to preserve.

Especially now, when disconnection can feel louder than community, I believe we become richer through shared memory. Whether history is passed in academic archives or in personal stories told across a dinner table, it all matters. Every story is part of our collective inheritance.