Jiangtai Xiu is a series of pieces inspired by a short period of study in Beijing, China, in the autumn of 2005. They were created for the official opening of the Scandinavian Museum of Ceramic Art, part of a larger complex of museums (FuLe International Art Museums) in Fuping, in Shanxi province.

The title is the name of an ordinary street in Beijing.

My starting-point was the architecture of this street - typical enough for its time – where the facades and paraphernalia of street landscape create an intricate confusion of urban styles. This complexity encourages, in my view, anthropomorphic speculation - a fondness for endowing the buildings and the urban environment with the qualities of human personality. My own interpretation of this response is a form of expression that is more abstract than the reality that inspired it, with the colours and forms of drab, decayed and chaotic exteriors being transformed, almost into a dreamlike state.