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.

As part of my broader Chill Project, "Ice Fragments" invites you on a personal journey. Explore the delicate balance between humanity and the natural world, appreciating the beauty within even the most frigid environments. Immerse yourself in "Ice Fragments" — an elegant fusion of my artistic mastery and environmental consciousness.


Glass Sculpture

Cinnabar

2022

Cast Glass

26" x 17.5" x 10"

Architectural Cast Glass - Glass Sculpture

Yulupa

2023

Cast Glass, Steel

82" x 24" x 24"

Glass Sculpture

Gamage 3

2015

Cast Glass

25.5" x 15.5 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. 

Glass Sculpture

Penrhyn

2022

Cast Glass

11" x 21" x 8"

Glass Sculpture

Reao

2022

Cast Glass

18" x 24" x 5"

Glass Sculpture
Glass Sculpture

Wragg Detail

Wragg

2022

Cast Glass, Steel

13" x 32” x 12.25”

Glass Sculpture

Saloté

2019

Cast Glass

21" x 14" x 44"

Glass Sculpture

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.

Glass Sculpture

Ulu Oti

2022

Cast Glass

8.5” x 9” x 10”

Glass Sculpture

Ambrym

2022

Cast Glass

10" x 12" x 4"

Glass Sculpture

Malaita

2001

Cast Glass

36" x 7" x 9"

Glass Sculpture

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.

Glass Sculpture

Szulu

2019

Cast Glass

26" x 14" x 14"

Glass Sculpture

Ice Fragment

2015

Cast Glass

14" x 15" x 6"

Glass Sculpture

Monterey Formation

2017

Cast Glass and Steel

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.

Glass Sculpture

Ice Head

2021

Cast Glass

17 .5" x 12" x 6.5"

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.

Glass Sculpture

Norsel 2

2008

Cast Glass

17" x 17" x 6"

This block was the first piece I made upon my return from Palmer Station, Antarctica. The project was to take texture molds of the glacier ice and stone for later use in compositing sculptures in the studio. The central texture in Norsel was taken from a granitic rock at the shore of Arthur Harbor on Anvers Island, where Palmer Station is located. The ice texture was from a “bergie bit,” a small fragment of glacier ice that we fished out of the sea. The name Norsel is from one of points of land that jut into the sea off of Anvers Island.

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