Carolyn Hazel Drake builds mixed-media sculpture with porcelain as her primary material. She finishes her clay forms with underglazes, or leaves them raw for smoke firing using an old Weber Smokey Joe. After firing the work, she incorporates thread (through weaving and stitching techniques), india inks, encaustic wax, and found materials. Her current work explores memory and alienation through unfamiliar variations on familiar forms: zoomorphic vessels, wheeled nests, perforated chalices, hollow stones. Although not one to be overly concerned with end times, Carolyn cites a potentially unhealthy affection for science fiction as the point of origin for this body of work: "I've been fascinated with the idea of a time when technology has reached its apex and subsequently gone into decline; a place where relics are the too-sophisticated remnants of previous generations, and where people, animals, and objects patch together a fragmented understanding of the world with nonchalance towards the intentions of civilization."