In ancient times a fulgurator was an Etruscan or Roman priest who would interpret omens from lightning strikes. Fulgurator itself, a collection of organic mounds next to emerging geometries, with colors meant to disturb our understanding of form, offers itself as an omen as inscrutable as a lighting strike.

Fulgurator is part of a larger series of pieces, where each form was built from pinching together small balls of clay. The lines seen running throughout the piece are outlines of each individual ball. The series is defined by a set of systems that produce an array of forms that offer interconnected variation. The work is as much about the system that produces the objects as well as the objects themselves.