Socrates’ Urn is a representative indicator of an early phase of Greg Wyatt’s sculpture—the integration of figurative sculpture and ceramics. This work, as with many of these “face pots,” was created during Wyatt’s Masters in Glaze Chemistry at the Teachers College of Columbia University; the stoneware clay piece was later rubber molded and transformed into a bronze cast work of sculpture. This work represents the idea of the Socratic method in both form and subject. The combination, integration, and transformation of medium and form is an art-technological inquiry: what if Socrates applied his analytical thinking to the transformation of a work-of-art in one material to the realization of it in another material? Where does this transformation begin: with the artist, the foundry, the craftsmen, the ceramic studio, or all of the above? The portrait “face” portrayed in this sculpture also encourages Socratic exploration: to some, it is a horse; to others, the hybridization of various mammalian elements, including aardvarks and rodents, dogs, wolves and canines, and equestrian and simian elements. This thematically ambiguous creature encourages the viewer to echo Hamlet, and ask “Who’s there?”