Michael Barnes

The heads, faces and figures I create are imaginary beings. They are suggestive and hopefully inspiring images. The pieces are not race or culture specific. They are more like composites of real, fictional, and dreamed people pushed, shaped and fired for life in a vitrified world. The work is a response, both conscious and other, to the inputs I have received from life, filtered through my being, and transformed from thoughts to physical efforts to a finished ceramic piece. Inevitably, the work reflects the viewer’s inner self and progresses beyond my scope.