Esther aims to make functional pottery that people are compelled to pick up, pots that may sit back quietly and become integrated into someone’s routine. Clay is a very intimate medium, inviting touch from hands and lips as it is shaped and used. Keeping functionality in mind, she utilizes pattern and texture that is integrated into the form, accenting rather than distracting from their utilitarian purpose. Most of her work is thrown on the wheel and glaze fired in a gas kiln with a reduction atmosphere, allowing for a degree of the asymmetry of human touch in the making, and chance in the coloration, both of which help to distinguish handmade from mass-produced pots.