My pieces which are handbuilt, burnished, slipped with natural or coloured terra sigillatas and then raku–fired with a crackling–away glaze show a synthesis of ceramic technics and formal languages of different ancient cultures. Handbuilding techniques which are typical for African or Pre–Columbian cultures and the burnishing of surfaces in Africa and America come together with the Mediterranian terra sigillatas and the firing of Raku in ancient Japan and its modification in the last century in the States and Europe.