“[In Perspective Willow 1’] occupies both the horizontal space of the dinner plate while at the same time alluding to the vertical space of the dresser display, of the plate as art. The trompe l’oeil effect makes this explicit though is also raises the issue of decoration as visual trope. The plain, flat, white Modernist surface/plate, on which the most famous pattern in the history of ceramics pivots, is subverted by ornament, which subverts its flatness with its depth. Decoration, which is traditionally seen as surface embellishment, (“superficiality in its most literal sense”) is here used to underscore its place as visual, conceptual complexity.”

Linda Sandino, Print and be Damned, Studio Pottery magazine, Dec/Jan 1997 p.30-33