With a career spanning over 55 years, Washington State artist Patti Warashina has established herself as an artistic icon, especially in the media of ceramics. She uses the figure as a vehicle to portray what she draws from her own daily life experiences, as well as the absurdities and foibles from the civilization in which we live. Her characters become the actors in her introspective narratives and the viewer becomes the voyeur. In her Conversations Series, the abstract quality of the surfaces erases and denies the identification of time and place, speaking to the universal quirks of all human behavior. Most recently, today’s highly charged political atmosphere has been a fascinating source of ideas for her to explore.