The strangest rocks I have ever seen are formed by water drops containing minerals, deep within  mountains in hidden caverns. The sight of these rocks enters into my mind, cemented there by long stints of drawing on site. The images stay with me and I carry them to my studio, so my intuitive work is inevitably led by these impressions. Building on my previous sculptural clay work , I was a resident at Baltimore’s Clayworks for 4 months and built several large sculptures in stoneware. I continued working on these sculptures in my own studio. Each piece is coil constructed and the process of meditatively making and then working the ropes of clay into convoluted formations, growing ever taller, is parallel to the original drawing process I start out with. The wood-fired sculptures render visual my recollections, though much changed from the formations that inspire them, as they speak of hidden places and surprises found there.