I create art in series, some wholly in glass, others incorporating elements of glass.

Questionable Foods addresses food issues of today - the argued effects of GMOs and pesticides, the debilitating effects of sugar and over-processing of foods, political and monetary conflicts throughout the food industry, treatment of animals, effects of food production on the environment, and the daunting conundrum of feeding and sustaining nearly 8 billion people. With this work, I want to urge viewers (myself included!) to more carefully consider what we’re eating, what’s being called food, and to make healthier choices, while asking food manufacturers to do better.

Ours is a new series of glass uteruses. Glass is a lovely material for this series. It can be tough or fragile, industrial or organic, transparent or opaque. With this series, I am celebrating women – their strength and vulnerability, wisdom, beauty, accomplishments, and the amazing contributions women bring to the world.

Natural Botanicals are three-dimensional trompe l’oeil. I love the surprise of viewers realizing that these seemingly organic and pliant pieces are actually glass. These works celebrate the beauty of nature and its ability to lift us out of the commotion of everyday life that seems so urgent and important, reminding us we belong to mysteries far greater.

Imaginary Botanicals are glass sculptures. They are my musings of what botanical life might be like in alternate realities. With this series, I want to entice us out of the confines of our ordinary realities, into alternate realities where the unexpected can appear. I believe our most alive moments are those in which we question or are surprised out of our everyday beliefs.