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Development of the work is intuitive and process oriented. One idea leads indirectly into another; make a piece, react to it, try something else. Once I begin working on a form I will spend days or weeks repeating it, varying it, playing with color and decoration. Sometimes this leads to a logical endpoint. Other times the piece morphs into something completely different. The ultimate origin of the wave plates was a small blue and green fish I saw on a dive trip 12 years ago. | 
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| My recent work involves the use of murrini to explore more complex color relationships in the wave plates and jewel bottles. Opaque and transparent colored glasses are layered and drawn out into patterned canes, cut up, recombined and drawn out again, then clipped into murrini. The murrini are laid out in a rectangular design on a hot plate and picked up on the outside of a bubble of hot glass. This is blown into a sphere, which is spun out into a plate on which the original rectangular design runs in a ring. The colors stretch and run and do unexpected things. Sometimes these are delightful surprises, often they provide technical challenges, always they guide the process for the next piece. |
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 | Inspiration for me comes from all directions; a dance, a painting, a sunset, a fish. I try to bring the emotion and spontaneity of a performance to the creation of a new piece. All the setup, all the test pieces and trials, are like rehearsal. When I pick up a blowpipe the curtain goes up and the world shrinks down to the droplet of fire on the end of the pipe; no stopping, no going back, total focus. |
| My approach is intuitive, more than cerebral. I am always trying for a combination of color and form that will elicit a visceral response. When I get it right a new piece will make me laugh out loud. | 
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I began blowing glass in 1993. I received my training at the University of Wisconsin, where I had worked for the previous 14 years as a biological researcher. In 1997 I built a hot glass studio at my home, on a hill outside of Madison overlooking the Sugar River valley.