I mix geometry with organic, in shape, form, and surface design. My wares are meant to be used daily or displayed and my sculptures are meant to be touched, held, rolled around in the hand. My own lifelong practice of meditation and yoga has manifested in my creations as the process of mark-making is part of my practice. Interaction with the audience is important to me as it represents our human interaction with the universe.
Each of the wares is enhanced by the use of sgraffito to ignite the surface. I engage the viewer by creating the illusion of depth and movement, space and time. The geometric shapes and designs are an interpretation of how I see the world; architectural details, patterns on insects and plants, the flow of mud from a geyser, colors in the sand on a beach, the waves and ripples created by a bug on the surface of an otherwise still body of water, are examples of my inspiration, memories, and documentation in photographs.
While working with wares, I did not find satisfaction in the representation of some of the designs in this way. I felt the need to create sculptural forms. Tree roots and branches both still and waving in the wind, the flight pattern of a bee, a bird, a falling leaf, the spin of a dog before laying down, the shape a cat takes while bathing, the waves of a body of water, are some examples of organic patterns I see and interpret in sculptural form. The line that creates these forms, is generally but not exclusively, infinite.