Concepts such as visceral response, compassion, vulnerability, ontology as it applies to communication and the metaphors that can be woven around these notions are the grist that has launched my present work.  As individuals, what kinds of veneers do we create? What are the messages we project?  Where do the perspectives that drive our responses come from and how can we direct them? In general, what are the relationships between our internal reactions and external projections?  These inquiries result in objects that attempt to develop visual connections between the two.  The pieces that are generated act as icons and serve to facilitate (my own) self-comprehension and perhaps aid in that of the viewer.

Many of the current works employ body parts, such as hands, hearts and brains. The hands represent holding on, letting go and giving as themes that recur in our everyday emotional lives.  Hearts and brains (aka minds) refer to the tandem, yet often polarized, sources from which our reactions come.  I attempt to create new contexts for these common symbols in an effort to reaffirm them, metaphorically, as essential ingredients of healthy and balanced interaction.

Glass is an appropriate medium through which I can project these investigations. The material possesses inherent properties that render it capable of expressing simultaneous strength and fragility, specificity via illumination, and degrees of visibility (i.e. ranging from obscurity or opacity, to clarity or transparency, to all areas of ambiguity, or translucency).