Frequently Asked Questions

Why monsters?

When I first started making pottery, I tried to be…well, normal. I made plates and bowls like I saw everyone else doing. But, one day while attempting to make a sculpture, I realized that if I made a monster, I could make it look as weird as I wanted. Humans sort of always need to look like humans, but monsters can be anything you can imagine. From that moment on, I made whatever popped into my head. My monsters have evolved from being smaller and more simplistic, into larger and more joyful versions of themselves that I am able to work on for weeks at a time. 

Do you sell online?

I don’t sell online because I love the slowness, connection, and real-time joy of in-person monster adoption. It makes them just a little harder to find — like any good cryptid.

If you'd like to meet them, come say hi at a local Bay Area market! (Or join my email list to find out when and where they'll emerge next.)

Do you take commissions?

I don’t take commissions with my current workload and creative flow. The monster process is a mysterious and strange one that I find it best not to mettle with, it comes and goes as it will.

Do you sell wholesale?

No, I make monsters in very small batches because the monster process is a slow one.

What is the “monster process”?

Each and every step of monster making is done by hand — every monster is hand built out of clay, individual pieces are sculpted and then attached by hand. The monster is also hand painted and glazed, they're never just dunked into a glaze (dunking upsets them, no one likes being dunked). And at the very end, the monster gets a unique name and original story to help make them feel ready to go out into the world and be adopted.

Because of all of these steps, every monster is one of a kind! Depending on size, on average they take about a month to complete, from first concept to finished product.