" If nature is the supreme manifestation of divine art, joining it to the art of man creates a magic symbiosis."

Of her ceramic art, she says, "just as the poet uses words for raw materials, I draw my materials out of earth and air and fire and water. The poet and the ceramist are integrated in their elements. Both create volume and expression and color. From these elements we create the subtlety of poetry out of ourselves."

	...She sees and feels the impact of the wind and water and sun and storm on nature, the effect of raindrops that have fallen on rocks for hundreds of millions of years. She translates this interaction in her work, preserving their effects transmuted through the prism of her art.

Paula Unger doesn't climb up and down mountains and canyons or traverse deserts just to say she did it. She touches the rocks and the grains and the desert sands, absorbs the textures and color in her ceramic sculpture, imbues her work with the tactile sensations and luminous presence of the light and rocks and trees and pebbles of the Grand Canyon, the mountains of the Negev desert, the Andes and the Sierra da Mantiqueira...