Published in Ceramics Monthly, January 2019
"Last fall, when I happened upon an array of Inuit sculptures displayed in the Michael Lee Chin Gallery of the Art Gallery of Burlington (https://artgalleryofburlington.com), a stone’s throw west of Toronto, Canada, I was disoriented at first. I assumed I was amidst an exhibition of soapstone carvings, as this is the media that is most traditionally—and I would suggest, bordering on stereotypically—associated with sculpture and art production from the indigenous people of the far north in Canada. My second instinct was that something wasn’t quite right. And, when I peered into the Plexiglas cases, upon closer examination, my heart leapt as I realized that what I was witnessing were Inuit ceramics. As a ceramic artist myself, I could tell from the patina of the works that they were not stone, and from their mottled organic hues of gray, charcoal, and tawny browns, I assumed they were saggar or smoke fired.... "
