Given new processes, the complexity of my work is limited by my ability to handle complexity.  (The reason I transitioned out of sculpture.)  The pots are either one dominant shape – maybe with a base/foot or handles or lugs.  Or they are two shapes.  That’s it.  Three is one too many.

In the last couple of years, I find myself working with the same basic shape idea that was central to my sculpture of the Sixties – a kind of rib cage/breast plate (armor)/blunt sailing ship prow.  I feel that in some vases done in the last year I have really found a way to use it that makes sense. (Don’t ask me what it means!)

Buttress Vase

Buttress vase 2006

Buttress vase 15″ high