The high desert terrain serves as both inspiration and supply chain for most of the work produced by Robert King. Robert, a physician and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a self-taught ceramic artist who continuously seeks new ways to express himself primarily utilizing the various natural resources found in the surrounding landscape. Respectfully collaborating with the wild clay, rocks, minerals, sand, and trees surrounding his Galisteo, NM home and studio, he crafts sculptural vessels that express the organic and natural environment where these materials have rested for many centuries. He describes his current body of work as “a love letter to the high desert”.