As only clay people know, throwing clay on a wheel, gives it elasticity, wakes it up, grants it life. Woodman not only thinks with her hands, she paints in the dark. For those unfamiliar with how clay is glazed, it may be worthwhile to know that liquid glaze is never the color it turns out to be after it has been fired. The colors and their relationships have to exist in the mind's eye, through experience. Color samples alone do not do the trick.
Woodman begins with an idea, but the idea is only the starter button.
For instance, she is enthralled by the amount of doubling and mirror-imaging in Jasper Johns' work, as exposed in the MoMA retrospective. This is shown in the current exhibition by several pieces that play with twinning. We are in a hall of mirrors. We may now look forward to a new period of cross-referencing in Woodman's oeuvre. Inspiration is an explanation.