With my vessels, I look at form, proportion, tripartite division, hierarchy of detail, inventiveness, pottery craft, and traditions.

My formal architectural training and years working for architectural firms have fundamentally informed my design sensibilities regarding how I create forms, relationships, movement, scale, and other design elements.

Sometimes, to realize my vision for a piece, I discard tradition and replace it with the initial inspiration that led me to conceive it. Hopefully, this results in a graceful and well-proportioned vessel.

 I use clays that contain chemical components that offer depth and speckles through the glazes when fired. The vessels thrown with these clays twist in the kiln because I fire them beyond the clay’s threshold temperature, resulting in vessels with captivating distortions.

Lately, the glazes I use have disrupted surfaces after being directly applied to the vessel and after being kiln-fired. The glaze crawls, cracks, or flakes off from the vessel during both application and firing processes. I want the glaze to complement and contrast with my intent to make a graceful, well-portioned, and statuesque vessel.