This ceramic landscape is based on a photograph that I took on an August afternoon near Tipsoo Lake on Chinook Pass in Washington State.  The weather had been nice all morning, but as I hiked with my kids from the parking lot to Tipsoo Lake the temperature dipped and a thick fog bank came swirling in through the trees.  I remember thinking at the time that I would like to try and capture the essence of the scene in a future landscape.

I took a fairly direct approach to the piece staying true to the photograph, but I needed to find a way to evoke the swirling fog that made that moment unusual.  Spiral shapes are a constant in much of my work and they fit in perfectly here creating a sense of motion that mirrored the graceful rolling fog of that August day.