I am a lifelong artist, retired musician, and self-taught home cook. My work throughout my life, and as it relates to my biracial identity, has always involved the intersection of two or more ideas, cultures, concepts, or processes. I am an illustrator and ceramicist that combines my love for food and cooking with botanical or vegetal themes often in the form of anthropomorphic characters or food puns. Ranging anywhere from comic-form illustrated narratives detailing a cooking technique, to single-character imagery of animal/food crossovers, my ideas come from seeing, eating, and the humor I find in both. Many of my works lean into self portraits; my most recent pieces depict a rat (I was born year of the rat) hanging and tethered by the grips of a melting cheese-pull (reasons I could never be vegan), and a hangry alligator morphing into a piece of vegetable pizza (we are what we eat, hangrily). My newfound journey into ceramics began with small-scale, food-themed wearables, such as bolo ties and earrings, and has since expanded into a tool to bring together sculpture, painterly techniques, and illustration into functional ceramic forms. With versatility in medium exploration at the forefront of my practice, I am consistently learning, experimenting, culminating, and gesturing into the next piece, usually while thinking about my next meal.