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About Jamie

There is a meditative quality when I work with clay.  Many times it is because I am doing something over and over again which allows my thought process to expand.  When I hand roll coils for eight hours a day my brain lets go.  I begin to see things differently and putting things together in new ways. 

I experiment a lot with my working process as well as with new materials.  At times the repetitive process of rolling coils alters the work and the process becomes the material work.  I go into the studio knowing what I am going to do; through labor the work changes and then changes again.  I embrace these changes and I realize that my thought process is shifting do to something that I have done differently.  I have recently become interested in altering my working process to see how the end result varies.  The final piece evolves from a combination of the physical and metaphysical processes.