This series began with a chance encounter at the grocery store, where I noticed cartoon polar bears lounging on melting icebergs printed on plastic ice bags. The irony was striking.

Recast in porcelain and decorated with china paint, these sculptural vessels mimic the ephemeral plastic originals, while fossilizing their contradictions. On one side, cheerful mascots sip drinks on shrinking ice. On the other, their skeletal remains mirror the consequences of our collective denial.

As with much of my work, these objects use the language of the vessel to expose the dissonance between beauty, consumption, and environmental collapse. They ask: what will we preserve, and at what cost?