Ceramics is my hobby and a passion I discovered while already an adult. After immigrating to the US with my family and giving birth to my second child, while working as a computer programmer, I started taking evening ceramics classes at a local art school. When I fell in love with ceramics, I studied under an excellent teacher and famous ceramist, Makoto Yabe, at the DeCordova museum. From him, I learned about the unique philosophy of Wabi-Sabi. Wabi-Sabi is the beauty of imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete things. It is the beauty of things modest and humble. It is the beauty of unconventional things. Later I was traveling in Peru and was amazed by Incan art. I mean the art before the Spaniards' invasion, the art you can mostly see in museums. Unfortunately, such a unique art didn't have a continuation. In my ceramics, I am trying to make contemporary Incan art in combination with Wabi-Sabi philosophy.