Clay has an inherent invitation to manipulation. Its ability to move, stretch, deform, reform, bend, and break entices even the most sullen of characters. Fired clay reveals past transformations, it does so honestly and stalwartly, for all to witness. I embrace the record of kinetic action. My work exhibits my energy, movement and interaction with soft clay. The finished pots harken to their past pliable state. 

      Brushed texture, indented lines, pokes and dents distort functional  forms to varying degrees.  The smallest shallow surficial texture of fine lines drag varying energetic swoops. Similar, but consolidated, swoops, and larger indented lines surround the exterior leaving a deeper scar and undulating the form. Dents push as in to soft dough, their directional, almost gravitational, force drags the texture and indented lines toward the indentation. Looking towards that interior the forces are still visible, yet dulled by the transition from interior to exterior.

     I have been enticed by clay's ability to be manipulated. In manipulating clay, I produce a vessel for use, as well as capture the force, energy and movement of myself and the kiln.