Captivated by the human form and inspired by color and simple shapes, Chari views broken furniture, wheels, and other unusual cast-off materials as opportunity rather than junk. She believes the history of each object should not be forgotten and thus forms figures from them, adding hand-sculpted heads, hands, and sometimes feet, made either of low-fired ceramic or paper clay. "It's not what you have," she says, "it's how you use it."