My newest work is porcelain pottery fired to Cone 10 Oxidation. Soft slabs are stacked and gently pinched together to create forms and surfaces that invite food and conversation. My hand-built dishes reveal the subtle pinch of fingers tracking a path of imaginative discovery. Although color gives the pots great joy, a recent focus has been the development of a subtle white on white surface. Using techniques including stamps, water-etching, and carving, in tandem with a bright white underglaze and the pale creamy bare clay color, a rich and delicate surface speckled with bright blossoms of color emerges. This approach is similar to how I garden, planting varieties of densely textured foliage scattered lightly with arrays of colorful flowers.