FACING FATPHOBIA

People with fat bodies experience discrimination throughout their lives, manifested through social shame, medical bias, and more.

While the fat acceptance movement has pushed our culture forward, we’re still steeped in stigma against fat people. These ongoing works address anti-fat bias through my experience of the world and others’ perceptions of my body.

Upcoming projects will focus on generational trauma surrounding fatphobia.

They will explores how ideals about bodies are shaped, inherited, and reinforced across generations. Through figurative ceramic sculpture, I examine the unspoken ways anti-fat bias is normalized within families and culture, and how those narratives impact self-perception and worth.

The figures I create center bodies that are frequently marginalized, rendered with care, realism, and presence. By emphasizing form, weight, and texture, the sculptures resist idealization and instead assert the body as complex, dignified, and deserving of attention. Personal and familial stories inform the work, allowing individual experience to open into broader cultural conversations.

These sculptures invite viewers to reflect on their own inherited beliefs and consider how care, harm, love, and judgment can coexist within generational narratives about bodies.