My most recent series, the Archeology of Desire, ties together ideas that have threaded their way through my work over several decades. The work references architecture, topography, geology and aerial photography, tracing the human footprint on the natural world. My work seeks to evoke a sense of discovery and contemplation, inviting viewers to engage with the surfaces and lines that define our environment. As in my earlier work, surface handling is a key component of my practice and reflects my many years of drawing and printmaking, where the end product reflects the creative process of building, erasing and rebuilding an image. But unlike work on paper, the clay allows me to explore sculptural possibilities, to pull the forms away from the wall and introduce elements of stress and tension – to suggest organic growth, fragility and vulnerability, and to wed together the drawing and sculpting processes.