Artifice

Artist’s Statement Life presents a child with a choice on Saturday mornings—cartoons or cooking shows? I always opted for the second. Though my passion for food didn’t turn into a career, it is still an indispensable part of my life. When my love for ceramics began, so too was born a dream of marrying it with the culinary arts. I had a vision of customizing dinnerware for chefs. Growing up in Salt Lake (which was never on the map for its choice in food) the dream seemed vaguely ludicrous. Would there ever be a chef in this area who would invest in custom hand-made dinnerware? With the Olympics, a strong economy, and a growing population, farm-to-table restaurants such as Forage began to advance the idea of fine-dining. My first collaboration with a local restaurant began with Bowman Brown at Forage years ago, and has since expanded to include a handful of the finest restaurants in the Salt Lake and Park City areas. My main focus as a ceramic artist when it comes to dinnerware is to create a canvas for the c