Ice Fragments
Ice Fragments is a series of cast glass sculptures that consists of molded fragments of ice and rock mostly from Palmer Station, Antarctica combined with other organic forms found in nature.
Cinnabar
2022
Cast Glass
Yulupa
2023
Cast Glass, Steel
Penrhyn
2022
Cast Glass
11" x 21" x 8"
Reao
2022
Cast Glass
18" x 24" x 5"
Wragg Detail
Wragg
2022
Cast Glass, Steel
13" x 32” x 12.25”
Saloté
2019
Cast Glass
53 x 36 x 112 cm
21" x 14" x 44"
Saloté was started as a composite of forest detritus and driftwood, plus wax and clay to complete the model. It was molded in rubber for making lost wax to then turn into cast glass. The idea is to create organic forms in three dimensions that reach towards and fill with light. It also fulfills my dream of transforming into "ice" my vision of glass and fully autonomous three-dimensional glass sculpture.
Ulu Oti
2022
Cast Glass
Ambrym
2022
Cast Glass
Malaita
2001
Cast Glass
36" x 7" x 9"
The Malaita editions are one of the first explorations in molding that was taken from natural objects and textures. This form was from an ivy burl from a fence in San Francisco.
Szulu
2019
Cast Glass
66 x 36 x 36 cm
26" x 14" x 14"
Monterey Formation
2017
Cast Glass and Steel
203 x 59 x 41 cm
80" x 22" x 16"
the Monterey Formation sculpture, a study for the Colorado Cascade Mural. From our library of textures taken mostly in Claremont Canyon in the Berkeley-Oakland Hills behind my studio, a combination of chert and shale was selected that represents the geology of plate tectonics where the pacific plate is crashing into, and diving under, the North American plate. This causes the marine-formed rock to be thrust up into he hills where we found it. The selections and compositing used individual textures to frame our story about geology. The recombined pieces turned into a design that shows earth movement over time. Cast into glass, that motion becomes a time-based performance of the solar system, the vision changing every moment as the sun passes by the glass.
Ice Head
2021
Cast Glass
43 x 30 x 17 cm
17 1/2" x 12" x 6 1/2"
Ice Head was the third piece created with textures from my expedition to Palmer Station, Antarctica, with the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program in 2006. It is entirely composed of a molded floating ice texture, a bergie bit, that we fished from the sea and took a silicone mold. The composite was all from area of the same bit of ice. The glass is a grey nickel/cobalt neutral color from the studio.
Gamage 2
2015
Cast Glass
65 x 39 x 30 cm
25 1/2" x 15 1/2" x 12"
Gamage was collaged together using textures from my 2006 expedition to Palmer Station , Antarctica with the National Science Foundation, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. It uses four textures of ice and one of rock that I found at the shore. I found it interesting that the ice had a limited number of textures, but when rock texture was cast into glass it looks more like ice than actual ice.
Norsel 2
2008
Cast Glass
43 x 43 x 15 cm
17" x 17" x 6"
Ice Fragment
2015
Cast Glass
36 x 38 x 15 cm
14" x 15" x 6"
Kaoka
1996
Cast Glass
20 x 38 x 17 cm
8" x 15" x 7"
Waka Tupapaku
1996
Cast Glass
84 x 36 x 28 cm
33" x 14" x 11"