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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.
Most of my work in glass and mixed media is about connections of time,
space and heart, and the value of looking closely. Looking closely sometimes
leads to Seeing.
I was born in California, consider North Carolina my real home, and live
just outside Washington DC with my husband Willy, assistant chief of the
Smithsonian's audio-visual department. Our daughter Eleanor, also an artist, lives nearby and works
as a graphic designer and Reiki healer.
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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