Japanese and Korean culture over centuries has elevated pottery from the daily to the sublime, from a craft to an art and sometimes to a religion.

These two countries have produced objects that are reduced to the quintessential abstract form as an organic whole. Always in search of the ideal form that emerges from nature and the artist reveals what already exists in the lump of clay. The developing of form as an unconscious act that comes from repeating the same form thousands of times or after a long training resulting in an un-learning to let the subconscious perform the act of creating.

My interest are in the entire process from forming the ceramic object, to the glazing and firing to create a coherent entity. The perfect form is only dead and dull. So is the unintentional imperfect. Only the ones that combine the perfect with the imperfect and have the ability to disturb the human eye in a way that arouses our curiosity are what is really great. The search for this quality is what drives me on. Achieving the balance between perfect and the intentional imperfect resulting in a coherent whole with a strong personality is my quest.