Add to ORKGArtist Statement Growing up in Northern Georgia, I find beauty in everything from the people to the surrounding environment. The wealth of variety in the inhabitants, the landscape, and the arts produced has influenced me in my own artistic and personal development. Through the years I have adopted ceramics as one of my main mediums. Ceramics allows me to have a have a real physically connection to what I am creating and what I am thinking. Deciding how to represent a particular subject or theme is usually the hardest part of my work process. I spend a lot of time researching and preplanning a piece, just to hammer out exactly what I want to say. I work with stoneware clay, low fire glazes, and alternative finishing methods. I model the cla...