I'm a material-based artist, which means first and foremost I pay attention to the material. It’s a kind of consideration that just comes with the job. When I’m approaching a new project my first thought is always, what will the clay do? How will the ideas I have in my psyche manifest in material forms? I’ve always got one corner of my mind’s eye on clay, I’m always immersed in this sticky medium, whether through thought, through performance, or through video work I’m trying to pay attention to the clay. Leaning in and focusing on the material I can feel my own humanity reaching out to this sticky substance. It is not surprising that the Latin word attention means to stretch towards. Let’s stretch towards our material roots our soil caked- foundations let us stretch and immerse ourselves in the material realm that we exist. Let's draw ourselves in the landscape whose material properties guide us, and experiential phenomenon moves us. Let’s get dirty, let’s get sticky, let’s get thick into the mud, for it's when we find ourselves saturated in materials agency and when our consciousness permeates material walls that we can connect to the interwoven nature of the universe.