Before the megapolis of 30 million people became a cyberpunk landscape, I imagine a port city built in layers from the river to the mountains. I was born there but left as a child. Over my lifetime, the city has erupted in a megapolis of 30 million residents where towering buildings are connected by endless stairs and elevators and tunnels. It is not unexpected to climb 10 flights of stairs only to reach the ground level of another building.  The "Chongqing Plates" are an exercise in nostalgia and exploration of an unreliable memory. The plates are loosely based on my own fading memories, clouded by my travel to other places, and biased by the old Chongqing in Wu Guanzhong's paintings.  I wanted to capture what little of the city I had left, permanently in clay, before it diluted further.