These pieces serve as canvasses for my use of line and color, and their various forms allow me to express different ideas of volume and even sometimes function.  The use of dark clay beneath the applied colored layers enables me to use sgrafitto to outline and scratch and scribble which expresses my feelings of freedom and abandon.  I work instinctively and thoughtfully, with no preplanned design in mind. Clay provides me with infinite challenges that I look forward to solving every day.