The sculptures were made after working in the ceramics workshop at the RMAC (Roswell Museum and Arts Centre) which engages a thriving community of ceramicists of all levels with a large knowledge base and an active glaze archive.  Working in the workshop and out at the residency compound we created combination dipped glazes and a method of layering painting over high fire glaze (essentially a glass surface).  Through this we were able to contribute back into this inspiring ceramics community in New Mexico.  
We created hand coiled forms with a relationship to traditional ceramic idioms, vases, teapots (although all are without bases) and reminiscent of, amongst other things, internal bodily vessels and glands.  Through the layering of physical drawing in relief on the clay body, the raw clay surface, layers of glazes and layers of paint, old histories of ceramics are mixed with younger cultures, like custom bike/car culture and digital inkjet printing on fabrics.  
The fabrics' imagery is layered from drawings and photographic images of petrified trees from the Arizona Petrified Forest National Park.  Our drawings are always involved heavily with pattern, colour and surface.  The Petrified Forest contains trees that were swept away and entombed during volcanic eruptions, chemically reacting in ash, mud and water the wood slowly petrified, retaining the trees' form but gradually becoming stone and crystal.