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I find it rewarding and challenging to make pots people will use. In my home growing up, hand made objects held special value and were gestures of consideration and love. I enjoy the community that eating together builds, and I find it meaningful to make beautiful serving vessels.
Pots are a place where I can combine abstraction of emotion, personal meaning, and relation to environment. In addition to carrying this metaphor, I aim to make vessels that will live in the kitchen where economy and celebration combine to infuse life with practical beauty.
I build porcelain forms whose defining lines and soft planes are geometric and sensual, elegant and animated, and architectural and organic. I merge nature’s placement of hue and the signals employed in human created environments to imply function, trigger associations, and call for exploration. In the process of building I throw cylinders that are altered and join them to parts made of slabs. These slab built sections are either shaped over hand built, modeled or bisqued clay molds. This complex process also informs the shapes my mind envisions; puzzeling pieces together spurs new forms. And form, in turn, brings me back to surface. I find them intertwined, both integral and defining.
I have reached my goal when my work provokes thought and adds to a sense of discovery and play as it is comfortably used.
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