mold-blown and kiln-formed glass (steel and spray paint mount)
The Flats are a series that begins with plaster molds formed from a combination of shapes including, tubes from supplemental oxygen and breast pumps, plastic toy containers, parts of the body and bouquets of flowers. Glass is blown into the plaster forms. The resulting vessels are then arranged in the kiln with a painterly approach, layering color and shape, to be slumped together. The source shapes are re-made into something topographical, the slumping yields a softness to the glass. The process is like re-drawing a map, a metaphor for the way loss changes our relationships with one another.
