Birthday Cake Sculpture

I am an emerging visual artist, based in Tucson, Arizona, working primarily in clay, metal and wax. Born 1984 in San Jose, California, raised between Hong Kong and the US, I received my BFA from New York University in Studio Arts in 2006. Right out of college I went onto a career in design. I worked in the fashion industry in New York City for a decade, designing jewelry for a variety of established American brands. I really enjoyed it, but working a full time design job and the stress from climbing the corporate ladder eventually caught up with me. I no longer wanted to contribute to fast fashion and corporate greed. Being laid off in 2015 was a blessing in disguise, that's when I returned to my passion of sculpting as a form of self therapy. My work is highly influenced by my anxieties of being human, particularly the dilemmas of everyday urban life. It is an ongoing exploration of my fascination with American society of excess and shameless consumerism, social media overstimulation, greed and gluttony as a remedy for emotional disconnection. Meanwhile still celebrating the beauty and flaws of these fragile human conditions.