Charles Krafft is a self-taught painter based in Seattle, Washington USA. His work in the Delft ceramics tradition was inspired by his friendship with American motorcycle and hot rod hero Von Dutch. In the early 1990s, Krafft began a series of natural and socio-political disasters painted on found china plates called Disasterware(TM), with the logo designed by Von Dutch. In 1995, Krafft traveled to war-ravaged Bosnia Herzegovina with the Slovenian industrial rock band Laibach. Moved by the plight of the besieged residents of Sarajevo, he returned to Central Europe and created an arsenal of Delft weaponry. The Porcelain War Museum Project premiered at the Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Defense headquarters in Ljubljana in 2000, and has subsequently been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. Femke Hiemstra was born in Zaanstad in 1974, a commuter town close to Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She grew up living near fields where she would roam the dredged ditches in search of stone pipe heads or animal skeletons. If she wasn't building tree houses or rafts, she would stay at home and read her dad's Robbedoes comic mags from the '60's, her Little Golden Books or the overfilled picture books of Richard Scarry, or she would draw horses and birds of prey on pink paper or construct post offices out of cardboard boxes. Today she lives and works in Zutphen, a hanseatic city in the eastern region of The Netherlands. A collection of her work entitled Rock Candy was published in 2009. She has exhibited internationally and amazing illustrations can be viewed at www.femtasia.nl