Working with ceramics, sculptures, and videos, Charles Snowden uses symbolic information to illustrate how our culture constructs bodies across race, gender, sexuality, age, death, and nature. The artist’s ceramic sculptures draw from antiquity and the quotidian through a forensic approach that touches upon culture, politics, and the circle of life. Invoking ancient rituals, he recasts apotropaic objects (ritual art used to ward off evil) using imagery from nature. By adopting the garden as a site for his cyclical investigations, Snowden uses clay (a material synonymous with the body) to express the temporal nature of existence through references to historical imagery. Ultimately, the artist employs various symbols of metamorphosis, growth, deterioration, and decay to create his mysterious, humorous, and existential objects.