This is pottery that celebrates and represents a range of landscapes, environments, and experiences that I have come to know and hold dear for myself since my child and young adulthood. From memories of spending spring and summer at the edges of my grandmother's pond and admiring my mother's lilacs, to what it felt like picking dandelions or wild blackberries to fill wicker baskets, I've created abstract and colorful depictions of these personal experiences on and within the surface and the form of each functional pottery piece in my senior thesis exhibition. This work offers a joyful and engaging view into the deep connection I hold with my unique childhood in rural Vermont