Octopi, Since some people thought my Starry Night piece looked like an orgy among friendly octopi, I decided to make another tangled group of some kind of spiral things.  Starry Night, This highly textured piece reminded me of galaxies.  I glazed the whole thing and then wiped off the ridges and mounds.  Strata, This piece is two feet across each way.  The pieces are loose in a heavy-duty tray to keep them together and safe while on display 

Deborah,   I met a good friend for lunch at Panera Bread one day and liked the pattern in the material on the seats and seat backs in the booth.  While sketching the design in a notebook, Deborah arrived, so I tried to include her in the sketch.  As you can see, I’m not very good at drawing people.  They still look like the people I tried to draw in the first grade.  Anyway, I blew up the    drawing (copying to mylar) and used an overhead projector again to trace the pattern onto two big pieces of butcher paper taped together.  Then I pressed the outline of Deborah into the clay through the paper.  For the texture of the material (which looked like wallpaper, I made roller stamps with designs in them and rolled alternating rows of “pattern” for the total wallpaper effect.