We live in the Glass Age.
Light flows as a transparent spectacle, filtering ideas through a lens, a screen - the infrathin. Glass is an inter-grated interface. It’s as if energy and a dance fused and became a material. Thoughts are often not clear - opaque some times transparent or translucent -the work can mirror the everyday.
suspended animation: Motion set in a state of stasis.
How does one enjoy an object? To look at or to hold, walking around it or investigating it in hand; a shift in scale does not mean a demise in concept or content. The transitive nature of material from industrial to artistic to utilitarian and the (in)between.
Object as question action as statement.
communicative endeavor: Glass and its making is a language unto itself.
I am a catalyst, an ambassador, a translator of glass - I am a glassmaker and educator. I think through this material just as one sees through a window. It often begins with a bubble - I always fantasize about ‘the next one’. Making is no longer a figment of imagination but instead a day to day necessity for survival . There is a will, a yearning to discover and make new things - new in the sense of authentic not necessarily original.
This practice is to be measured in a lifetime. A lifetime that exist in this, the Glass Age.