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ABOUT
THE ARTIST
In August
1997, I took a one-day class in fusing with my daughter, and I fell in
love with the glass. I love working with it: real magic happens in the
kiln. Working with glass is like an intimate conversation with light itself.
My work is about connections of time, space, and
heart, and the value of looking closely. Looking closely sometimes
leads to Seeing.
My glass is Made with Intention. Each session opens with sage smoke, sacred to the indigenous people of this continent, and prayers to the seven directions and my own ancestors. I ask that the glass carry what is True, Beautiful, and Good for the People, and that each piece and its person find each other. Some glass is also infused with the energies of a particular full moon or new moon, especially at times of a solstice, eclipse, or a powerful alignment in the stars.
Glass is the interface between Earth and Light: the core component of any glass is silica, a kind of quartz. My mixed media work often combines glass with particular stones, like clear selenite or jasper.
I was born in California, North Carolina is my heart-home, and I live
in Arlington, Virginia with my husband Willy, the technical yoda of the
Smithsonian's audio-visual department. Our daughter Eleanor, also an artist, is
a graphic designer, shamanic Reiki healer, and caretaker on an organic blueberry farm in Pennsylvania.
My academic background is in psychology and sociology. In North Carolina I worked in human services, and after moving to the Washington area in 1980, I worked in biomedical research for 25 years.
What I do is influenced, in more ways than I'm aware of, by roots in the
coast and mountains of North Carolina... by a decade of deep attachments
in Haiti and, more recently, the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico... by Gifts of learning from indigenous Peoples, especially those of our hemisphere, both North and South....
and by life teachers like Alan Watts, Kenneth Patchen, and my poet/friend
Will Inman, who observed in 1966 that "Truth don't stop to pick the
teeth of the man that says it."
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Working
with
glass is like
an intimate
conversation
with light
itself |
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