I began working in clay two years ago. For decades I worked in a polychromatic of mediums: painting, printmaking, drawing, metal, photography, puppets and masks. Clay threatened to be another distraction of materials and process. Instead it became the vehicle that translated all that came before into a cohesive body of work. In this show I explore a vessel’s capacity to contain an essence in objects of both form and function. The sum of the pieces makes a survey of the nascent days of clay objects in our collective history in tandem with my own evolution of the learning curve with clay. Alone each object pulses with eternal breath. Together they tell the story we do not remember. They go forward and backward in time and space. They were in my hands waiting to be made all along.