The Land/Sea Ships (L/S Ships) are a new series of ceramic/earth material-based sculptures extending from earlier ship pieces of the 1970's to 1990's. Like the earlier works, this new series draws much of it's content and inspiritation from geology, land/seascape painting and covalent environmental projects. As noted in the press release for The Sea Within the Land: "in the context of geologic time, the land and sea are mutable, interdependent and may be construed as forms of each other." The paintings of W. J. Turner, Martin Heade, Fredrick Church and John Kensett, amoung others, speak of the sublime and give emotional presence to ineffable qualities of land and sea. The Land Kilns and related site works provide site-based experience and context with which the smaller-scale ship works have a generative and reciprocal relationship, each scale providing different strategies and opportunities for investigating ideas, materials and presence.

In addition to many earlier ship works, more recent works, studies and environmental projects, such as: San Francisco Wharf Complex, 2008-present, The Sea Within the Land/Laramide, 2011, Study: Land/Sea Analog/Terrain Displacement, 2014, Displaced Sea/Seeking the Permanente, 2014 and Magma Chambers (Corvus/Orchidacaea/Kolumbo), 2016, are, in particular, informing the concepts and imagery of the Land/Sea Ships.  Each Land/Sea Ship work is considered an experimental space in theme and material engagement, investigating  strategies of narrative, research and process inspired by these and related environmental projects and sculptures.