"Pottery of the Future Available Today." Modern design porcelain by David Pier. Slipcast, thrown, thrown and altered, and handbuilt designs.

Much of the power of my forms comes from the feelings elicited by strong, direct stimulation of the pattern recognition systems of the visual cortex. This is analogous to the feeling that comes from the recognition by the auditory cortex of a well-structured waveform, a musical tone. Sometimes, in my simplest forms, this is the dominant effect.