Ko-tanba vase and bowl Artwork

In college I enjoyed pottery, but I was never very good at it and decided to use pottery shapes in my work. Early on there was more of a simplified, abstract quality to them. Years later when I revisited the theme of pottery I became more interested in creating portraits of pots that I admired, especially pots from Japan that had a rustic quality, and by the nature of their surfaces show evidence of the fiery making.