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| As a child my presence was often accompanied by the phrases “don’t touch that!”, “put that down!” and “why do you have to touch everything?” In the twenty five years since then not much has changed. I am still motivated by the need to feel everything. My attraction to clay is for this tactile experience, both in progress and as a finished product. I started working with clay as a distraction while studying design and advertising at the University of Delaware. I kept taking pottery classes here and there. Eventually I quit working in advertising and still kept on with clay. For me there was no “Eureka!” moment with my work, but rather a slow building of natural comfort and intrinsic familiarity. The inspiration for my work is the meditative all-consuming and encompassing experience clay is. It demands strength and intense sensitivity, stillness and movement, patience and haste, intellect and aesthetics, and single-minded concentration. Aspects from my past find their way into my pieces in the graphic and textural elements. There is no single influence to note, but rather a slow moving subconscious stream of ideas bubbling to the surface. |
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