Objects made, objects born, the expected, the unexpected, experiments, learnings, practices.

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Hilda's 2D work draws from her immigrant experience, interest in the ephemeral and transient, inquiry into the construction of memory and identity, and appreciation for our perplexing and fragile bodies. Her materials reflect these interests as she works primarily in dust (charcoal), water (sumi and watercolor), and graphite for her portraiture and figurative work. Most of her 2D work is done at the kitchen table under the supervision of at least one cat.

 

Hilda's ceramic work primarily focuses on tableware from the studio pottery tradition of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. She ruminates about bowl shapes and mug handles way too much. One day she hopes to make a piece buzzing with spirit.

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Hilda enjoys museum trips and teaching art. 

 

She typically crafts felt projects and decorates cookies while watching the Golden Girls.

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She lives, walks, studies, and bakes in the East Bay.

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"Yet as artists, we give ourselves assignments all the time; this is what it is to have a practice. If we are reasonably thoughtful, however, we understand these assignments not as 'that which will produce work of value,' but as 'that which will allow work to happen, perhaps producing the conditions through which something of value might take place.'" - Colleen Asper