Our assignment in figure drawing studio was to imagine that our model was starving or extremely malnourished having minimal musculature or fat on his body.  This drawing was made with red conte crayon in my drawing pad.

This vase is simply the form of the lower abdominal region of the female body.  The vessel was thrown on the wheel from porcelain clay and altered before being cut from the wheel surface.  I carved it further after it was removed and then sanded the surface smooth after bisque firing.

This drawing was made with a wax crayon on a lithograph stone for my printmaking studio.  It is an innocent reinterpretation of the story of Adam and Eve.  The assignment was to choose a myth or folk story to depict.  One could interpret the grown man in the apron as God in the story as Eve, as a mere child, makes an attempt to retrieve an apple for herself in an innocent but immoral theft.

This pot was a technical nightmare and is still a work in progress.  The central vessel was thrown on a wheel while the vertebrae and ribs were hand-built onto the altered structure.  To make the vessel represent deflation or exhaling, the ribs were lifted off of the face of the pot into suspension.  As they dry, even desperately slowly, they warp and twist into each other and some of the more brittle ones break off.  Since this stage of its progress shows the concept the best, I chose it to represent the idea as a whole.