A pot has the capacity to give and receive simultaneously.  It is the perfect vehicle for hospitality.   How and what we eat is one of the means by which society creates itself and acts out its aims and functions.  I see food as the root of culture and the meaning in our lives. Food is a dynamic medium through which trends come and go.  It is also a conventional and sacred way of representing identity, sex, power, friendship, magic and witchcraft. It defines our time within our day and throughout our life. Making pottery for me is about giving and receiving simultaneously.   It is about hospitality.

 Pottery forms easily embody aspects of the natural world, such as the animals we see, and the plant life that textures our world.  The surfaces and attached details of my pots often transform the vessel into zoomorphic or anthropomorphic objects.  Textures and glazes become the skin of a pot, a way of interpreting how we might embellish our bodies.  My pots are often hand carved and glazed in complicated overlays to enhance visual and tactile contrasts, much like the pattern of a garment or the feathers of a bird.

 I hope my pots will shape and dramatize the rituals surrounding food and allow me, the potter, to partake actively in the lives of those who enjoy my work.
My pottery is made of porcelain clay.  Most of it is wheel thrown and altered.  I fire in a gas kiln to cone ten.