I speak of my pots as expressions of the journey of claying. The potter and the clay take a journey together. All attention is focused on the creation of meaning out of which tradition speaks and pots are born. Growing up in South Carolina has put me in touch with a special nature to which I now return with renewed inspiration. Song of the Hakeme Brush is actually a style of pottery that has evolved since my first contact with clay, a renewal and joie de vivre falling within the clay tradition absorbing all man’s cultures, past and present, East and West.

It is a testament to the spirit of living Zen that arises from a firm foundation and to the grateful celebration of life to which it calls us. It is because my teacher, Dr. Kenneth Beittel, apprenticed in Japan and mediated the spirit of Zen to me that I speak of the practice of pottery within the great tradition of art as a spiritual discipline. I see pottery essentially as a journey, as a path and as a thinking dialogue that is fully realized by the potter, such a shepherd of the earth and so close to Nature is he.