All my work is purposefully obscure.

It is just out of the grasp of language and, thus, brings us back to our rudimentary way of collecting information, namely, through the senses and the body.  Although my sculptures and installations are steeped in the ceramics’ process, my practice side steps the traditions of the historic, earth-bound, fragile material.  Rather, my works embrace the precarious: they extend into space, hover in mid-air, pile up, and, sometimes, are on the verge of disappearing into dust.  The chameleon-like properties of clay and, specifically, its tenuous nature speak to the immediacy, transient, fragility of life. Coupled with this precarious quietness, my massive installations have a palpable energy and force that further connects us to our roots and origins.

I want my works to get into your bones and guts, to touch on the raw, the visceral, the nerves; to murmur up through the body to make a time and place for contemplation and reflection about our basic, biological humanness.