Clay creates possibilities for the artist. There is both a fluidity and solidity in the material. Clay is pliable but through firing it becomes something solid, and the material connects me with humanity’s evolution. Sculpting objects in clay allows me to find in an interior space a response beyond the intellect, an emotional reaction where words stop. It is creating life out of nothing.

The human head is a form that has existed across time and cultures. It was used as an artistic object before recorded time. These pieces have been done with only a notion of a head. No models or sketches are used. My sculptures reference cultural images of western figurative sculpture, African sculpture, Easter Island, Pre-Columbian and Asian art. The work also comes from the unconscious and goes back to doodling done as a fifth grader. The pieces are meant to touch the part of us formed from experience and connected to our physical being, which together form a mystery that exists in all objects that catch the myths of an iconic common humanity.