Sculpture
Sculpture made from 2004-2006.
My sculpture is often mixed media in nature yet the glass is often the central focus. Conceptually, I am interested in the personal or the body placed in arbitrary environments. These environments are common, places where a real-life physical person can be replaced by a medical file, credit card number or even a social security number.
At the same time, I am also especially influenced by the collecting, organizing and categorizing of items that I find human in nature. Such as the body of Saint Zita who lies 800 years dead in Lucca, Italy, or the flat file filled with one doctor’s collection of items extracted from the tracheae or esophagi of his patients, in the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia.
I make bright organ-like glass objects, such as hearts, stomachs, lungs and spines. I intend for my glass organs to be candy colored, multi-layered and I hope each of them represents a physical human just as much as any number can.
My sculpture is often mixed media in nature yet the glass is often the central focus. Conceptually, I am interested in the personal or the body placed in arbitrary environments. These environments are common, places where a real-life physical person can be replaced by a medical file, credit card number or even a social security number.
At the same time, I am also especially influenced by the collecting, organizing and categorizing of items that I find human in nature. Such as the body of Saint Zita who lies 800 years dead in Lucca, Italy, or the flat file filled with one doctor’s collection of items extracted from the tracheae or esophagi of his patients, in the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia.
I make bright organ-like glass objects, such as hearts, stomachs, lungs and spines. I intend for my glass organs to be candy colored, multi-layered and I hope each of them represents a physical human just as much as any number can.
