Artist Statement: In this piece of art I notice a vessel with a cylindrical. base and a spherical top. I can see that that it is less than a foot tall. This piece looks like it could possible hold a candle or flowers. The elements of design that were used include form, texture and shape. An artist I used as inspiration was Natalie Weinberger. She has created various vessels in the past that include slabs and coils. When I was making this, I was thinking about how I can make this so it is able to hold flowers. I was focusing on making the cylinder base in one day by making a slab. From there I began to stack coils on top and wanted to focus on smoothing them at the end. I wanted to blend the coil top and slab bottom so they look together, rather than two random separate pieces. I believe this project was successful overall. I believe I did a good job incorporating the slab and coils to make one united piece. I like the project, however I did not do the strongest job smoothing. As u can seethe thickness is not 100% consistent throughout the whole vessel.