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Bridal Registry

Bridal Registry uses the familiar tradition of the wedding registry to examine marriage, property, and women’s autonomy. Porcelain lingerie, dinnerware, embroidered linens, and decorative patterns blur the distinction between the bride and the domestic objects associated with marriage. The work draws connections between what a bride receives, what she is expected to become, and the legal and social structures that have shaped marriage.

Coverture

2025​

Hand built porcelain (thong, napkin, dish set), underglaze, gold luster decals,

lace placemat, velvet, frame​​

Coverture (noun)

  1. A cover or covering; shelter; concealment. 

  2. Law. The status of a married woman considered under the protection and authority of her husband.

 

In Coverture, the bride becomes the china. Referencing wedding registries and the historical legal doctrine that absorbed a married woman’s legal identity into her husband’s, the work examines how marriage has positioned women as both adornment and property within the domestic sphere.

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Chattel

2026

Hand built porcelain (bustier, dish), underglaze, gold luster decals,

brooch, velvet, frame​​

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Chattel draws on the language of ownership to examine the historical treatment of women as property within marriage. Porcelain lingerie decorated with china patterns collapses the distinction between bride and household possession, placing the female body among the objects traditionally acquired for married life. The work asks what it means when a woman enters marriage not only as a partner, but as something to be possessed.

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