“Making round even pots is a worthy goal, and for the first phase of one’s career as a potter, arguably, a necessary goal. However, forty-plus years into my career as a potter, I no longer unquestioningly accept the tyranny of the round and the even. Increasingly, my work involves issues that are less easily definable. Tache pots that I produced earlier in my career were readily accessible. You could pick one up and understand it almost immediately. Some were very good pots, but they were dealing predominantly with technical and intellectual issues – issues where I was firmly in control. Now my pots deal predominantly with my emotional response to the medium. Understanding them requires study and prolonged physical contact.”
“When my best pots happen, I often see myself as a medium through which the work is flowing. I feel that I’m but part of a collaboration with clay and fire. On good days, I’m able to play and dance with the clay and the flow can be magical.”