Published in Studio Magazine, September 2018
"One rainy day in the fall of 2006, I found myself walking down Dovercourt Road toward Queen Street West in Toronto. This was a time when ceramics weren't even on my radar. I happened to glance in a shop window, and in the blink of an eye my world changed . Stopped cold in my tracks, I gazed intently at two somewhat oblong bowls-one black and one white-both checkered with the type of surface you might expect to find in an arid desert. They were virtually mirrors of each other, about the size of large mixing bowls. Something deep inside me shifted . I entered what I came to know as the David Kaye Gallery, and discovered the work of Steve Heinemann.... "
