Selected work: Named and conceptual pieces
Below are some of the titled pieces I’ve made. Click on any orange-bordered image to see multiple views of a vessel. Photos are not to scale.
Work created during the International Turning Exchange
“Learning to Cope: Pear Incognito under a Mantle of Cherry”: Bare pearwood bowl with stitched cherry bark mantle, 5.75" h × 6" dia
“A Matter of Faith”: Sandblasted and wire-brushed Cryptomeria vessel, 11.75" h × 9.5" w × 4.5" d
“Where the Heart Is”: Sandblasted and wire-brushed Cryptomeria bowl, 4.25" h × 7.63" w × 7.25" d
“Sedimentary, My Dear Watson”: Sandblasted and wire-brushed Cryptomeria vessel, 4.5" h × 8.44" w × 6.13" d
“Learning to Heal: Pear Naked and Unapologetic”: Bare pearwood bowl with chainsawn rim, 3.85" h × 6.38" dia
“Offering”: Bare pearwood vessel on a bed of its own shavings, on a bare walnut platter, 7" h × 10.2" dia
“In Her Dream”: Bare pearwood vessel on a bed of river rocks, on a painted sassafras base, 4.25" h × 10.81" w × 6.75" d
“Wanderlust”: Cherry bowl turned on four centers, 3.5" h × 9.75" w × 9.06" d
“Mother and Child”: Pair of cherry bowls, one turned from inside the other, 4.25" h × 10.6" dia; 3.5" h × 6.2" w × 3.5" d
“Erotic”: Walnut bowl, 2.63" h × 10.5" dia
“Pierced”: Bare sycamore bowl, 2.5" h × 4.13" w × 3.75" d
Wire-brushed pear bowl: Wire-brushed bare pearwood bowl, 3.5" h × 5.75" dia
“Sometimes, Luck”: Bare, natural-edge pearwood vessel, 6.25" h × 4.75" dia
“Brushed and Blasted”: Sandblasted and wire-brushed bare oak vessel, 5.7" h × 4.06" dia
“Executive Order 9066”: Collaborations with glass bead artist Terry Yoshimura Bendt
“Executive Order 9066: Manzanar”: Apple hollow vessel with aluminum barbed wire and handmade glass beads on a dyed sassafras base, 11.5" h × 16" w × 9"
“Executive Order 9066: Gila River”: Mesquite rice bowl, tea cup, and chopsticks with aluminum barbed wire, handmade glass beads, and Gila River soil on a dyed African mahogany tray, 4.75" h × 18.06" w × 12" d
Flight series
“Early Flight” (Flight Series No. 1): Zebrawood bowl, 7.75" in diameter
“Achieving Liftoff” (Flight Series No. 2): Walnut bowl on a pecan stand, 5.5" in diameter
“Crane” (Flight Series No. 4): Cherry bowl on a jatoba (Brazilian cherry) stand, 6.31" in diameter
“Lift, Yaw, and Roll” (Flight Series No. 5): Walnut bowl, 6.31" square
“Nestling” (Flight Series No. 6): Walnut vessel, 6" square
“Yearning to Soar” (Flight Series No. 7): Mesquite bowl with Peruvian chrysocolla inlay, 4.5" in diameter
“Feather” (Flight Series No. 8): Soft maple bowl, 5.75" square
“Shape of Air, Color of Gravity” (Flight Series No. 9): Purpleheart vessel, 9.63" in diameter
“Lift” (Flight Series No. 10): Sabicu bowl, 6.94" square
“Wing and a Prayer” (Flight Series No. 11): Jatoba bowl, 7.69" square
“On a Breeze” (Flight Series No. 12): African mahogany bowl, 8.25" square
“Alighting” (Flight Series No. 13): Yellowheart bowl, 8.88" × 5.6"
Single works
“Lightning”: Mesquite hollow vessel with turquoise inlay, 8.38" in diameter
“Basin”: Redwood bowl on a painted sassafras base, with beach pebble, 6.68" in diameter
“In and Out of Love”: Sinker cypress plate, 9.13" in diameter
“Over Easy”: Pecan vessel on a walnut stand, 2.88" in diameter
“Abstract No. 1”: Cherry bowl, 6.63" square
“Coffee Fills a Void”: Mesquite vessel with inlay of coffee grounds, 4.5" in diameter
“Performance Edge”: Chilean mesquite bowl with rim of coffee grounds, 6.75" in diameter
“Caffeine Dependency”: Mesquite cup on a ring of coffee grounds, 3.7" in diameter
“Chalice” (Holy Vessel Series No. 1): Eucalyptus chalice with azurite inlay, 5.38" in diameter, 5.75" tall
“What Emerges” (Holy Vessel Series No. 4): Natural-edge maple burl vessel with carved foot, 3.88" in diameter