Caught within a committed relationship to glass that is motivated by desire as it is informed through defeat, the language of technique and the rules of “doing things well” are challenged by a provocative and equally thoughtful exploration of “(un)doing things well.”

My work and research are prompted by the phenomenon of surrender, finding parallels  between human vulnerability and material vulnerability unique to glass in experimental process- based projects. Mine is a making practice that navigates around ideas of control as they relate to circumstances of chance through curious explorations of erasure, negation, compromise and abandon. Mythologies of the idealistic making hand and the flawless making gesture within contemporary craft practice intersect with the realities of mishap, fault and failure that punctuate the human experience. In turn, my ideas pivot around the strengths and susceptibilities of glass in work that relies on object making, installation, drawing, photography, video and writing as various tools to help examine the curious nature of letting go.