Early Works > Sculpture & Glass

Hearty Lungs
blown glass
16in x 10in x 6in
2006
Doubled Up Inside (Attempted)
hot sculpted & sandcast glass
7in x 9.5in x 5in
2006
Catalog
glass & mixed media
34in x 48in x 20in
2006
Catalog Detail of Book
mixed media
34in x 48in x 20in
2006
Handlers' Feat
glass & mixed media
48in x 24in x 28in
2006
File Copy
glass & mixed media
12in x 8in x 5in
2005
Something Kinda Re-lic-key
glass & mixed media
42in x 9in x 11in
2005
Shedding The Thinniest Skin Detail
glass & mixed media
9ft x 12in x 8in
2005
All or Nothing Detail
glass & mixed media
49in x 18in x 18in
2005
1st Attempt at Protecting the Filed
glass & mixed media
58in x 24in x 24in
2005

Early Works made from 2004-2008.

During this time my sculpture was often mixed media in nature yet glass was most often the central focus. Conceptually, I was interested in the personal or the body placed in arbitrary environments. These environments were common, places where a real-life physical person could be replaced by a medical file, credit card number or even a social security number.

At the same time, I was also especially influenced by the collecting, organizing and categorizing of items that I found 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.