“I chose terracotta as the medium for this series because of its fragility. Before it is fired, the clay is workable with significant plasticity and can be manipulated to create any type of form. After the clay is fired, the resulting terracotta may last for ages, but it can also break easily if it were to fall on a hard surface. The material’s fragility symbolizes the vulnerability of the public to threat of the pandemic. Not only may they fall ill to the disease, but their emotional state — which may already be volatile — can be exploited by those who surround them”