While many artists look to the past for inspiration, potter and sculptor Tracy Miller, 60, looks to past cultures. For 40 years, much of Miller’s work has come from his thoughts on ancient civilizations in Egypt and South American countries. Clay has outlasted these civilizations, but objects from that time period are reborn in Miller’s art and vision. “They are imaginations of mine that I put into the clay forms that might have existed or that I might have seen if I had lived during that period,” he says. “I think about those people and I think about the landscapes and out comes a pot.” Miller has his work on display at Gallery 7 at 118 N. Seventh St. in St. Joseph.