This series examines what’s left behind after losing someone you love. Each piece is a quiet record of grief blooming within a material strong enough to hold it even as it alters what remains. The surfaces bear the marks of time, tears, history and chemistry formed using concrete and rock salt. The materials hold space for what is heavy, what’s missing and what seeps through the weight of loss.

Saltspheres are the newest pieces in the Efflorescence series. I started this work in the wake of my sister’s death in January 2026 and my father’s passing in May. The spheres are made to be held in your hands as a tangible reminder of change and to offer contemplation of the lightness within the undeniable weight of grief. Holding both loss and love in the palm of your hand connects you to what is still living and waiting to effloresce.