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Around 1990 I started incorporating texture and carving in a series I was calling "double curve bowls." The textures were a way to enhance the energy and movement inherent in these vessels. Varying the elements of line, type of wood, texture and pattern could profoundly change the personality of the bowl. These pieces had the feel of some African pots I half-remembered so the series got a new name. In the last few years I have been dying the wood black in some of these pieces, obscuring the grain and letting line, texture and pattern prevail.