Studio
Material specific craft traditions nourish my creative process. I traverse the lines between domestic sphere, foundry, and glass workshops.
Glass
Working with glass makes me happy, often frustrated, but happy regardless. Temperamental, fluid, fragile, indestructible, transparent and impermeable. As a sculptural material, it demands respect and offers no assurances. Anything can happen, and often does, in the glass studio.
Foundry
Inspired by the need for new monuments representing my own values and interests, I found my way into the metal casting process. Ancient lost wax becomes lost fiber techinique, testing the limits of old knowledge to fit the needs of a different kind of foundry artist - a middle aged mother of three.
Wool is my first love. Intimate, renewable, functional - dry wool felt helps me make unexpected discoveries. I sew, stitch, and felt the freehand cutouts in repetitive rounds of manipulations. To help them stand up in the world, I infuse by sculptures with encaustic medium, a combination of beeswax and damar resin, which serves as external and internal armature.
Fiber
