Whenever someone asks what have I been up to in the studio, I never have a simple answer. There are several streams of work I have produced, all moving in somewhat of a forward direction with their particular end use/design/purpose crossing and interweaving over time. It is hard to summarize the process and aesthetic as it continues to evolve. Or maybe I am just a slow learner. I never “get it right”. If only I felt the satisfaction of thinking there was nothing more I needed to do, that it was perfect (sigh).

The work I have for the Chelsea Sculpture Walk, the “Shard” series, has been in actual fabrication mode for around two years. The thread that connects each is not simply the material or purpose, but the mindset or motivation for the act of creating. Sometimes the experiments that sit in the “heap-o-junk” get revisited and resolved later in another work. Mostly I am generating similar stuff. There is always the spark to try something new.

The new work stems from all scraps and pieces of unfinished models and sketchbook drawings. The inherent fragility and delicacy with the material of glass often turned my “experiments” into ‘shards’. The current simple glass forms explore this dynamic, by themselves, appearing like broken sheets of ice. The surface is heavily textured, iridized and sparkles, a reflection of the stone base. By itself, the glass was merely pretty, awkward, a fragment. When treated as a jewel, or something precious, metal framed and set on the stone base, the whole piece ties together, complete.