votives

Carved Stoneware All my life I have been drawn to the majesty and mystery of trees. The trees of my childhood and Cajun heritage—Live Oaks and River Birches, Willows, Dogwoods, and Magnolias—tower in my memory. I continue to feel a familial connection to trees, as well as deep reverence. Trees retain an ancestral and sacred power in my imagination. Through whatever media I work in, I am compelled to depict tree forms and lines: twisted trunks, their gnarled, entwining branches, their dignified beauty. Large textile pieces and ceramic votives involve detailed, repetitive labor—piecing and stitching, carving and scoring. I find these deliberate, highly repetitive activities ritualistic and centering. This labor, and the pieces that result, are forms of devotion, attempts at prayer.

Brown Stoneware, underglaze, salt fired

9 X 7 X 8 inches
Brown Stoneware, underglaze, cone 6 
7 x 7.5 x 5
Scarlet Tanager, brown stoneware, glaze, cone 10
4 x 6 x6
Brown Stoneware, Engobe, Cone 10 Reduction
9 x 4 x 4.25 inches
Brown Stoneware, glaze, engobe, cone 10 reduction
4 x 6 x 6
Brown Stoneware, glaze, cone 10 reduction
3.25 x 4.25 x 3.75 inches

Stoneware, underglaze, glaze, cone 6

4 x 5 x 4.5 inches

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