For somebody who is not doing this professionally, who started recently, he has an interesting predisposition to surface, and he has a sophisticated sense for it in terms of the palate of glazes he chooses and the way he layers them. Most people who get into pottery as hobbyists focus on form, and when it comes to glazes, they’re thinking, “Okay, what do I put on this pot?”
I could easily see him coming up with the surface first and then finding a form to fit that. To me, even with somebody’s earliest pieces, you get an idea about what their interests are. They’re the most pure. So this interest is probably going to follow him throughout his ceramic career.