Clay is a material I have gravitated to for years due to its transformative properties and fragility. I respond intuitively to the immediacy of its manipulation. I create my works from coiled-and-pinched methods of building and like to see my fingers and hands imprinted into the final pieces frozen in time by the process of firing the clay. I work on multiple pieces at a time, rotating through them as the clay stiffens. I work with Terra Cotta clay due to the rich, earthy, red color and versatility it offers in the finished surface. Once my pieces are leather-hard, I load them into the kiln to complete the drying process before firing a bisque firing to cone 01. I then glaze my pieces to cone 04.
