Glass is a ubiquitous material cherished for its transparent property. It is often looked through and not at. My work draws the viewer inside. I want them to find something interesting beyond the shiny façade.
Sympathetic to the source material which is recycled glass, the making process capitalizes on material property to create the cellular patterns. These patterns represent both the flow of the molten glass and the information that flows across the optical boundary of the object.
Glass recycling can be traced back to the first Millennium AD, if properly cleaned and sorted it can be infinitely recycled. Unfortunately, in today’s society the recycling of glass is far more complicated. Contamination and sorting are huge a problem associated with glass recycling, most recycled glass is single loop recycling, and the majority becomes aggregate within road surface and once finished becomes landfill. How glass can have an afterlife or enter a circular economy is of great interest to my practice, by working in recycled glass I hope to reshape waste and draw attention to the issues of sustainability that we face.
My current body of work uses recycled glass. The collection experiments with scale and shape to strike a balance between transparency and the space trapped within.