A former art school student who has scoured the globe in search of beautiful objects and intriguing images, Germaine Shames reviews exhibitions, contributes to art catalogues, and profiles artists.

Carl Jung once compared great art to a dream: "For all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is never unequivocal."

Shames, a lucid dreamer, connects readers to art through story.

"German armies advanced on the outskirts of Paris, bombing a path toward the heart of the French capital.  The sculptor Jacques Lipchitz fled south, taking with him two small sculptures and a pillbox filled with enough cyanide to kill both him and his wife.  On the road outside Vichy his brother caught up to him and warned, 'The Nazis are behind us.'  Lipchitz turned to his wife and said, 'Let’s take the pills now'...”

AZ Jewish Post

"I have never heard a ceramic artist compared to a coquette, and yet, thinking of Beatrice Wood and her signature lusterware, the Mae West adage--'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'--springs to mind.  Too many handles.  Too much light.  An impossibly large color palette refracting into infinity..."

Innovation and Change

"The world of Wanxin Zhang—borderless, uncharted, strewn with vestiges of two thousand years of history East and West—might be the last stop on a time machine gone berserk..."

Ceramics Monthly

                               --Published clips available upon request--

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