Watch a plant grow, and you see its intention is perfect. It uses just the right shape, amount of color, and texture to fulfill its pliant, living design. I try to emulate this “biosophy” in clay — without doing realistic imitations of plants.

My work is very touchable. It satisfies the urge to feel something attractively “natural,” and more seductively, rewards the user by connecting them with a very potent and tightly focused abstraction of the tissues and structures of organic life. This — the psychosomatic connection occurring during the act of using the piece — unleashes the potencies of my expression.

Robbie Jo Heidinger