Selected work: Named and conceptual pieces
Below are some of the titled pieces I’ve made. Click on an image to see multiple views of a vessel. Photos are not to scale.
“Executive Order 9066: Manzanar”: Apple hollow vessel with aluminum barbed wire and handmade glass beads on a dyed sassafras base (collaboration with Terry Yoshimura Bendt), 16"w x 9"d x 11.5"h
“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 (collaboration with Terry Yoshimura Bendt), 18.06"w x 12"d x 4.75"h
“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
“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
“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