My work is technically quite traditional. Most of it is thrown on the potters wheel, and all of it is salt glazed. I use the directness of the wheel and of vapor glazing because they are tools and processes I feel comfortable with. My primary concern is a direct form of expression.

I see my successful pieces as visual objects -- individual, personal, tactile. They are hollow and can contain. Many have direct functional applications, but for me, their primary purpose is to express and function visually. I suppose that in many ways I am more interested in the painterly or sculptural aspects of the piece than I am in whether or not it is “pottery” in a traditional functional way. Our present world is filled with useful things which have little or no aesthetic value. I try to make a relatively small number of objects which have primary aesthetic value.