I have had nothing short of a love affair with clay since I was eight years old. It is hard to take that fascination out of someone once discovered. I was lucky to have a mother who nurtured my creative interests, and to encounter great art teachers to guide and encourage me in both high school and college — leading me post-graduation on a thirteen-year journey, living, and making ceramics (and music) in New York City. As life moved forward (from New York) my wife and I spent the next six years living in Kyoto, Japan. She was an art conservator at the Kyoto National Museum, and I set up a studio in our small traditional ‘machiya’ house in the Higashiyama District. I honed skills, made and exhibited a lot of new work, and did all I could to absorb the techniques, materials, and diverse traditions of Japanese ceramics. Today, I currently live in Rochester, New York where I make all my porcelain lighting and objects from one potter’s wheel, one kiln, and an ever changing but singular impulse to create.