Heart Purified Raku hand-built Ceramics Kiln-cast Glass base 7"h x 8.5"w x 8"d 2009 Hykes Private Collection

Heart Purified is a gazing reflection piece; a purifying bowl. From the smooth smoky white of the vessel's internal surface to it's rough exterior with deeper colors of the unconscious, this vessel is designed to be touched while contemplating; affirmations, goals, well-wishes, healing prayers, are to be placed momentarily within. From this resting position, the contents continue to mix with our atmosphere until a river of intent either spills like a waterfall filtering through the spiral healing base in its decent downward or floats upwards in a smoky blaze, back into the manifesting universe from once it came.