"This series of portrait teapots developed out of my interests in functional pottery and figural sculpture. As the most complicated form in functional pottery, the ceramics community has long treated the teapot as a sculpture object and, initially, it was the technical challenge of a functional realist figural teapot that attracted me.
"Each teapot is double chambered, having been sculpted on an armature, removed, hollowed, then reassembled with the interior chamber, supports, and connecting spout. They are all fully functional, pouring through various accessories or through bodily openings." - Mark Nathan Stafford