"What led you to create this series?"

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Though everything may look fine online, there were mornings that felt impossible for me to get through and nights where I sat alone with nothing but my thoughts. I’ve lived what felt like forever, yet I still find myself lost, searching for answers I may never fully understand. In those moments, clarity slips away, and I know it’s time to enter the divine realm again. That sacred place we all come from and will one day return to.

This series was born from a desire to step through a portal. One that could offer refuge from the relentless pressures of a world obsessed with scale, cost, and visibility. In that environment, I often felt unsafe and overwhelmed. It was then I realized I needed to seek my own light again, to create not for external expectations, but to reconnect with something deeper, something true, where I can feel safe again.

'For a long time now, I have felt that modern life's distractions and pressures can make it challenging to maintain a strong connection with spiritual or divine principles. The fast-paced nature of daily routines, technology's constant pull, and the allure of material possessions can lead people away from introspection, prayer, and reflection, hindering our ability to connect with a higher power or inner peace'—NJH

EXPLORE THE SERIES

Halo Series; Into the Pearly Gates (2025) reflects on the estrangement of the sacred in contemporary life, offering a sculptural meditation on the distance between the spiritual and the everyday.


This series of works emerged as a quiet resistance to that disconnection, a tactile meditation on presence, intention, and reverence. Each piece is shaped with the hope of creating small sanctuaries in everyday life, where the user can pause, breathe, and reconnect. Through the texture of clay and the rhythm of form, I wish to invite the viewer to consider moments of stillness not as luxuries, but as necessities, and reminders of the sacred that exist within and around us.

At the heart of the work is the motif of the thorn. Historically a symbol of pain, exile, or martyrdom. Here it is reimagined as a gesture of protection. These thorns do not threaten or harm, they encircle, shield, and sanctify. Embedded in sharp, curving forms and glazed in an intense finish, they evoke relics not of violence, but of reverence. The surfaces gleam with luminosity, recalling devotional objects worn by time, yet still imbued with meaning.

Each work functions as a quiet relic. An object not of worship, but of remembering. Suspended between ritual and ruin, the series reflects a longing not for return, but for proximity to the ineffable. 


In a world stretched thin by velocity and fragmentation, Halo Series offers a still point. A reaching, not to possess the divine, but simply to remain in its orbit.

I imagine that, in time, I won’t recall the scale of the works or the number of eyes that met them. What will remain is the resonance they held for me and the quiet truths they revealed through the act of making.

My hope is that, when you encounter your own moments of uncertainty, these pieces might serve as quiet companions, guiding you toward a place where meaning transcends measure, and presence holds more gravity than scale.

Halo Series