WHITE MALE is a series of ceramic figures embodying my sense of my own white maleness and that of my son.

The men are spiritual self portraits, attempts to conveying my own awareness of the imposition of my white maleness on the world - they’re awkward, bloated, looming, they take up too much space, breath too much air. They’re threatening but uncertain, overbearing yet apologetic, they’re both solemn and laughable, self-important and retiring, grounded and adrift. 

The boys embody my love of and hope for my son, but also my anxiety on his behalf, my recognition of how his privileged position as a white male is shaping him and how it will continue to do so in ways beyond my control. I hope to convey something of the ambivalence I feel towards that privilege, the conflict between principles of social equity that I hold dear and the particular case of my son, wanting, what is best for him, and knowing that overwhelming privilege isn’t what’s best for him or for anyone.