Artist Statement

 I have always been drawn to objects whose history is written upon their surface: The river rock worn smooth from centuries of tumult; the bleached, chewed bone found on the desert floor; the bare-bones landscape of the American southwest. These things speak to me of timelessness, mystery, and the inevitability of change. 

Using stoneware clay, I hand-build large, abstract, forms that reference these objects, while speaking to the concepts of growth and perpetual transformation. As I construct my pieces, I work to create rhythm, flow, reverberation and quiet within each one. 
 
The work is hand-built with stoneware clay, using pinch, coil and slab construction methods. After construction they are sanded smooth, sprayed with layers of slip and terra-sigilatta, burnished, and fired in oxidation to 2200˙.
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