My ceramic art links to the old. It takes art traditions and mutates them into personal visions. As an artist I look to push the boundaries of what ceramics, as a medium, should become. While maintaining a link to traditions past, the ideas and process used in my work stretch the materials’ chemical properties and limits to open potentials for new ceramic aesthetics. One needs to venture beyond the safety of boundaries to see what is really possible with a medium. Out of the uncertainties of the wood kiln's fiery space of chaotic forces I see my work in the “fantasy” of the viewer's internal world and the “reality” of the surrounding external universe.