Roberto's Statement
I was humbled to receive the invitation to exhibit in The Last Drop exhibition. I selected a Delft mug as a muse. My process often uses the history of ceramics and its propensity to separate class due to porcelain's high cost prior to the open sources of recipes.

In this Delft cup I see a landscape scene, blue and white—this is what I see in an immediate reaction, but I often try to understand historical works from the perspective of a minority who grew up in an underprivileged community. Often when I see water I see death, where most see water. I think it is because I refused to ever get in a body of water as a child because the image of dead bodies being dumped in nearby neighborhood made me fear being close enough to water that it might also take me.

I enjoy juxtaposing pleasant images, like a landscape, with imagery from my heritage and culture.