Planetary Nests

MY MATERIALS: My work incorporates blown glass, ceramic sculptures, glazed kiln bricks, and glory hole floors. I mix glaze formulas to control color and reactivity. I pour them into the hot glass and manipulate melting and cooling to create a range of textures. As I spin the pieces, materials drip onto the glory hole floor. I harvest these encrusted remains and use them as foundations for the vessels. Nesting in the environment from which they were born, these works echo metamorphic geology. My work that is an aggregation of forms which become landscapes of imaginary planets. May use this elsewhere: GROWING MY NATURAL FORMATIONS: A sandscape erupts into a silica vessel that oozes ceramic glazes which fuse, melt, and crystallize. In the center, hot rocks fume under a glass lake and release salt gases that cause the liquid surface to swell into a sparkling dome. The finished work is a fossilized imprint of many processes that contains a living dimension.

Angel's Reef 12x14x10 in.jpg
Angel's Reef 12x14x10 in.jpg
Birth of Slipper 10x18x12 in.jpg
Birth of Slipper 10x18x12 in.jpg
Birth of the Melt 14x20x12 in.jpg
Birth of the Melt 14x20x12 in.jpg
Birth of the Melt detail 7x10 in.jpg
Birth of the Melt detail 7x10 in.jpg
Birth of the Melt view 2.jpg
Birth of the Melt view 2.jpg
Electric Reef 6x5x5 in.jpg
Electric Reef 6x5x5 in.jpg
Flood's Birthsite. 16x46x30 in.jpg
Flood's Birthsite. 16x46x30 in.jpg
Geode's Birthplace 12x18x10 in.jpg
Geode's Birthplace 12x18x10 in.jpg
Geode's First Birth 15x15x8 in.jpg
Geode's First Birth 15x15x8 in.jpg
Gestation (installed on a small shelf).jpg
Gestation (installed on a small shelf).jpg
Gestation 8x10x7 in.jpg
Gestation 8x10x7 in.jpg
Jewel Volcano detail 14x14 in.jpg
Jewel Volcano detail 14x14 in.jpg
Jewel Volcanoes 15x30x15 in.jpg
Jewel Volcanoes 15x30x15 in.jpg
Jewel's Melt 12x16x10 in.jpg
Jewel's Melt 12x16x10 in.jpg
Pluto's Castle 10x6x6 in.jpg
Pluto's Castle 10x6x6 in.jpg
Rcokscape 12x23x10 in.jpg
Rcokscape 12x23x10 in.jpg
Thawing 10x18x12 in.jpg
Thawing 10x18x12 in.jpg
Thermal Storm 12x28x12 in.jpg
Thermal Storm 12x28x12 in.jpg
Water Rock 8x14x10 in.jpg
Water Rock 8x14x10 in.jpg