My work seeks to evoke a sense of nostalgia for the natural world. I am inspired by my love for landscape photography and curiosity for natural beauty. Glass and photography have an inherent symbiotic relationship. Through my practice, I continually seek to explore this marriage by creating decorative glass objects. I am aesthetically influenced by historical photographic processes. I have two main bodies of work, photo-resist sandblasted plates and fossil-vitrea vessels and castings.

I explore natural landscapes and photograph their beauty to preserve them. I transform this imagery into surface decoration applied to blown-glass plates. The translucency of the material adds an ethereal quality to the image. Through this process, I document the stillness and fleeting beauty of our natural world.

Through a process called fossil vitrea, I use glass as a medium to photographically document natural elements. I fuse found leaves, feathers, and flowers onto sheets of glass. Through the fusing process, the organic object is burned away and it’s ghostly image remains imprinted on the glass. The fused sheets are then “rolled-up” in the hotshop and transformed into vessels, or used with a combination of sandcasting to return the pieces to nature. My glass brings attention to and a sense of longing for the intrinsic beauty of our environment.