What are the main influences that inspire your work?
CC   Nature in all its forms.
What kind of research do you do before commencing a new project? Do you believe this information supports the work?
CC   It depends on the project: technical data, literary images and impressions may affect a project but may be undetectable in the final piece.
You work alone (apart from machinery). Is this the only way in which you can work? Is company a distraction?
CC   Usually I work alone, but with collaboration other work would emerge, other pieces.
Do you sometimes find yourself dry of ideas or do you know in advance what your next step will be?
CC   I find myself most of the time without interest for ceramics, gradually the interest returns and with it more ideas. I have had very few ideas, a crack, a vertical line, a penetration in the material… with different voices in the passing of time.
Taking risks and chances; does this play a big part in your work?
CC   Yes, in the same way as predetermination and rational control, it's difficult to separate the two faces of the same coin.
It seems like you are constantly playing and taking risks. For example, putting plaster in the kiln! Are these risks at the heart of your work?
CC   The heart is tireless. The risk, the game, the adventure... nothingness and silence... are all aspects that make the heart beat.
Do you create work for your own personal satisfaction or for the satisfaction of others?
CC   My satisfaction is inseparable from others, one drives the other.
Have you lost any enthusiasm or are you as excited as the first day you started?
CC   Enthusiasm is ever changing. The important thing is not the work in itself, nor is it life in itself, but the balance between the two; one informs the other. To feel immortal and yet live each day as though it is the last.
What advice would you give to a potter who is just starting?
CC   Listen to your own voice.