Without movement there cannot be growth, without growth there cannot be change, without change there cannot be LIFE.

Clay, like the earth it comes from, is a dynamic, animate entity. I respond to the physicality of the material- its weight, its texture, its malleability. Wire, like clay, has the same malleable characteristics but with a tension and sharpness important to my sculptures.

As I work the clay and metal with my hands , I channel the energy within the material, concentrating and releasing it in forms that signify creation, growth, and life. Every action of my hands is recorded in the clay and remembered by the wire. Therefore, on the most basic level, in working the materials, I enact and portray movement thus the potential for life.

The soft, curvilinear, organic forms are inspired by the natural world. Each piece suggests something emerging or contained within a form. What is inside the form and how it emerges is just as important as its container and the outer surface.

The smooth, soft forms are wrapped, bound, punctured, cut or pierced leaving crisp, raw or ragged edges. The unglazed, partially glazed or painted exteriors contain either bright, exploding, sprouting forms or interiors that emerge through orifices, peek out behind wire bindings or seep through cuts, like blood through skin.

Life speaks through the emerging forms and substances struggling to escape their restrictive casing. Each, then, suggests the dichotomy between interior and exterior, animate versus inanimate, soft versus hard, potential versus stasis, freedom versus bondage, and ultimately growth versus decay or life versus death.