I work in porcelain, because of its starkness, purity, strength and translucence, all depending on its manipulation.  I use symbolic images and decorate the wet clay with a proprietary printing process with which I assemble and layer in order to create a story, a joke or a surreal visual landscape.  The hand built work is constructed to show process: seams, glue, rivets, etc. or to resemble paper, speaking to the nature of preciousness and permanence vs. fragility and disposability. This piece, Tourist, literally puts light on our consumer culture, selfishly documenting superficial experiences while ignoring the fraying of our inherent moral values and destruction of civil society and the environment as a whole.