(subtle techno music) (subtle techno music continues) - I've been doing pottery for a few years now.

I started, I would say, around the pandemic time.

For me, clay is really healing, and it was my way to dissect my emotions and really work through a lot of difficult feelings.

Prior to this, I had your typical career, and being a artist is something that has always been a thought in my mind.

I wasn't presented that opportunity until we became a military family and relocated to Virginia.

Once I took my first pottery class, I instantly fell in love and knew that this is what I was called to do.

(light techno music) I've always been a creative person, so no matter what career field I chose, it just never really settled within my soul until I touched clay.

(light techno music) I get to be my authentic self and really be open about what I'm going through on my own personal journey.

It's really helped me connect with other people, and so it's been really healing and wholesome in that manner, in like a full-circle kind of moment.

I am still fairly new to participating in art shows as an artist, so the fact that I was able to invest in show at both the Stockley Gardens and the MOCA Boardwalk Art show in the same year is still quite a huge shock to me.

It's just been happening so quickly, but I am extremely thankful and grateful.

It's a good feeling, but a very foreign feeling, very reassuring as an artist.

I didn't realize there was a shirt.

I plan to do this long term.

It's been sitting right within me, and I feel it's my calling.

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