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What is it about working with clay? I am taken by the elemental transformation of common mud into stone going through stages from wet to dry, soft to brittle, malleable to solid – always able to return to mud and begin again until the test by fire. Much like volcanic activity, our clay turns into glowing, molten forms transformed by heat – some areas bare or layered in glass and sometimes, as with Raku reduction, soaked with carbon. The final form bears little resemblance to the lump of clay from which it was shaped.
My focus with clay includes hand building, wheel throwing, coils, altered forms, mold making and more recently Raku.
Life is busy. When I am not making pottery, I practice and teach Tai Chi.