I work with stained glass because there is no other medium that allows me to engage both the physical and the immaterial simultaneously. I work with light and color by using the intractable, material elements of glass, lead and other metals. Glass contains within it many contradictions. It connects us to, and separates us from the world. Glass reveals and conceals. It protects and exposes. Glass creates a seemingly fragile boundary which holds both the material and the immaterial.

The content of the work contains and expresses these dualities. The seen and the unseen. Freedom and constraint. The physical and the spiritual. These concerns are evidenced in the tension between structure and image, distance and intimacy, opacity and transparency, geometry and nature, material and light.

My work in glass consists of site-specific, architectural installations as well as autonomous panels which are paintings in glass. These two pursuits enrich and strengthen each other. The site-specific work responds to the architecture, the program and users of the building, the quality of light and the environment. The autonomous panels enable experimentation and investigations to enrich the large scale work.