The sculptures depicted in this section are presented to give an overview of my work from 1990 to 1996. These sculptures are simultaneously starkly elegant and hauntingly disturbing, celebrating on the one hand the incomparable seductive beauty of glass, yet leaving one with an echo of something dark and perhaps unanswered.

I utilize a wide variety of materials of which glass figures prominently, but by no means exclusively. The fused glass columns and plate glass panels are combined with armatures and bases constructed of metal and occasionally wood. In addition to this marriage of metal, wood and glass I employ innovative photographic images depicting X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging and classical goddesses. Frequently these photographs are permanently etched into the plate glass panels by sandblasting through a polymer photo sensitized stencil. This process results in a haunting three dimensional like image, not unlike the sculptural icons I am depicting.

The process by which the glass elements are made is technically referred to as slumping and fusing. Plate glass is initially cut into shapes and forms using a common hand held glass cutter. These pieces are then arranged in a large kiln and heated to a temperature where the glass becomes relatively soft and starts to bend and slump. At a slightly higher temperature the various glass layers fuse together to become one solid piece of glass. The glass is then cooled (annealed) very slowly, which takes anywhere from four to ten days. At the end of this long wait the kiln is opened and success or failure is confronted.

The metal bases and armatures are fabricated by standard arc welding techniques utilizing mostly mild steel and occasionally stainless steel. Curvilinear forged iron elements are often compositionally mixed with the fabricated pieces in many of the sculptures. Forging is a process where a section of iron is heated in a furnace until it becomes red hot. It is quickly removed from the fire and pounded with either a hydraulic or hand held forging hammer allowing the metal to be contorted into extraordinary shapes. The balance of this powerfully expressive form of steel manipulation juxtaposed to the seemingly fragile glass elements give my work the elegance and power I aim to achieve.