I began using napkins and cardboard unintentionally at first, it was a way to build installations and artwork with less worry about financing their production since the napkins were picked up in bulk from $0.99 stores and the cardboard from trash bins or various donations. The materiality reduced economic barriers, but could also nicely capture, in a manipulated material form, anxieties present when digesting my idiosyncratic concepts of current politics, feminist thought, anti-capitalist theory, and ultimately, my feelings. The result is uncanny painting-like sculptures that symbolically provide comfort; similar in shape to pillows, mattresses, blankets, and feminine bodies… sometimes incorporating bold words to emphasize a feeling. Most theory I understand through reading at first, so it made sense for me to incorporate language into the artwork in a way that the words could also function similarly to the other materials. The ceramic work thematically continues in this matter.