started at a young age while watching my father build large heating structures in order to manipulate steel and fire ceramics. My earliest memories consist of watching silently off to the side as copious amounts of heat energy made rigid metal malleable. This innate curiosity with fire lent itself perfectly to working with molten glass. While I work with different materials, the medium of glass continually frustrates and intrigues me both in its inherent fragility and fluidly dynamic chemistry.

My recent work revolves around a current theme of escalation, both in the human fabricated and natural worlds. The human race finds itself at a volatile turning point in our development. The exponential growth in population and energy usage coupled with the depletion and destruction of the world's resources delivers our species with an opportunity unique in history. It is this precarious potential that informs my sculpture. The process of stacking layers echoes the escalation of our unsustainable societal direction, with each additional deposit adding more pressure on the entire system. I aspire to push the material I work with to its threshold, cementing a feeling of vulnerability in the finished piece.