He may have begun his art career as a potter, but his work is as much preoccupied with regenerating Chicago's South Side where he lives – an area entrenched in poverty and gang violence – as it is creating pieces that sit prettily in a white gallery space.
Both of these years amplified record-breaking rainfall in the northern Central Valley and Sacramento — an area currently entrenched in the worst of the drought.
"It was very difficult to ascertain the facts and names as it is a very conservative area, deeply entrenched in tribal customs and traditions," said Farid Ahmed, the provincial coordinator of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in a telephone interview from Quetta.
In recent weeks, rebels have been trying to advance on areas where government forces are entrenched, while rebel-held areas of Aleppo have come under fierce aerial bombardment since mid-December.
And yet schools across Britain have improved outcomes for children, sometimes to an astonishing extent, with some of the most dramatic progress in areas of entrenched disadvantage.
In all these areas, however, Netscape faced entrenched competitors.
In some violent areas, corruption is so entrenched that it is all but impossible to root out, and the Taliban and other rebels are pervasive.
For this reason, I prefer job guarantees to be limited to areas where unemployment is entrenched.
"Differences in the quality of housing stock across areas of Brighton are deeply entrenched and the boundaries of the new catchment areas mean that families living in the most deprived neighbourhoods have little chance of accessing the most popular schools in the centre of the city".
Despite major transformation in Belfast city centre and on the waterfront, plus the ongoing peace process, the imprints of volatile identity politics and severe social deprivation are entrenched in other areas of the city.
