ARTIST STATEMENT

Attention to function plays a critical role in creating wares to be used in conjunction with the preparation, serving and consumption of food and drink. That creative process relies on generating intuitive connections between the clay and the maker. Questioning function and the process of making is important to the development of those connections. The answers to the questions lie somewhere between my hands and the clay, and fall elusively in the space between control and abandon.

The use of my work is essential for it to be “complete.” Because each decision in the making of a pot is made to draw the user to engage with the piece, that final step – using the pot – fulfills the creative process.