Artist's statement:
The magic of making art cannot be fully and rationally explained. "It is the harmony of the heart and the mind in capacity of feeling into things that plays the instrument …", Hans Hoffman. I use glass to describe myths, to bring the past and the present together and to identify with cultural and spiritual pasts. Humankind had one common beginning, a place where the simplest, instinctual needs are of one collective unconsciousness, described and manipulated to fit one's own reality. I am driven by the impulse to communicate. The issues that currently appear in my art are - the search for primitive awareness - the search for a connection to the Earth - and the search for a reason underlying our experience of existence. My art concerns the transformation of ideas about the spiritual reality inherent in nature and natural forms into physical art objects. I have struggled to communicate these ideas with others through my use of form, material, decoration, antique methods, myth exploration, and my use of personal, European, Native American and primitive "magic" or spiritual symbologies. The transparency and magic of glass is what draws me to working with this material. The fourth dimension of glass can be compared to a spiritual reality transformed into a physical reality through the investigation of primitive myths. The luminescent quality of cast glass in a large sculptural format provides the best way of furthering the communication of these ideas.

I use glass to describe myths. To bring the past and the present together, identifying with a cultural past and describing how it affects me. My search comes from an honest place, a questioning, an investigation of the reason of our existence, our need to find the unknown, the reason for hiding behind or celebrating with objects or symbols of power such as masks or vessels. My intent is a need to communicate an inner life, a response to my environment.