Images in article: Blue Dress 18" x 16" x 16"  1998, cast glass Carrousel 12" x 18" x 6"  1995, cast glass

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed." (Einstein, Ideas and Opinions; New York: Crown, 1954; p. 11)

    I have been exploring the relationship between the body and the spirit, the mundane and the fantastic. There is a difference between being alive and living - everyone is alive, but living involves imagination and a sense of wonder. In my work, I try to encourage fantasy.

    My work is primarily figurative but not in the traditional sense. I use images of puppets, marionettes, and automatons to suggest animated yet vacant bodies. My cast and blown glass clothes are variations of this theme. These pieces are points of departure from the mundane world. Everyday clothes represented in glass, familiar objects in an unfamiliar state. The characteristics of glass, fragile, precious, and invisible, redefine the object. I am trying to awaken the ability to see the marvelous in the mundane.