The poem instructions come from the book "surrealist games", a great way to generate poetry with a group of people. Surrealist techniques like automatic writing; stream of consciousness stories are inscribed on some of my ceramic pieces. I am drawn to randomness, the absurd, and micro stories. where nothing much happens.Usually the story is incomplete and the viewer decides the ending if they choose to read the pieces at all. Sometimes the stories are embedded in a tangle of lines making them difficult to decipher.

Another influence is the fairy tale or stories where small children are led out to the woods. The story "who killed cock robin", or oscar wilde's the "nightingale and the rose" are favorites. :(