Coexisting with clay in one form or another is what has driven me for most of my life. This is what I call the pushback that I get from Clay. This is a “hard to define” element that clay has which some call clay taste, Tsuchi Agi, or what I like to refer to as “Umami”. Umami known to most, is a culinary term that is also “ hard to define”. Some refer to it as the fifth taste bud, but if you ask 10 people what it is you most likely will get 10 different answers. I look at Umami as that thing that you really can’t put your finger on. I don’t use that term for just food or clay but when you really try to understand it, Umami transcends, all creativity, paintings, drawings, music, dance, theater, etc. it isn’t always there but when it is, you just know it, but you really can’t put your finger on it. Hopefully, my work not only reflects this phenom in the finished form like a photograph capturing that special moment, but is also about the journey that I take getting there. This is the drive that makes me want to continue.

No boundaries.