SITES

These large scale gallery and private installations are interconnected. The starting point was Caithness, a gallery-sized setting of my impressions of the cliff and coast lines along the North Sea in northern Scotland. The exhibition ended and I brought the glass home to play with. I placed stacks of cut plate glass, weathered and dirtied, against the trees along the driveway, to mysterious effect. A hurricane broke a number of them and the larger shards became Shining Path (a clear nod to Andy Goldsworthy).

The next chapter salvaged some of the intact Caithness pieces to become life-sized glass cutouts of corpses at Death in the Aviary. Resurrected and articulated, the figures danced Ring Around the Rosie, suspended from the gallery rafters. Ladders has gone through several iterations as well. After the “aha!” moment at the workbench while setting up something else, the glass ladders were made and then set aside for quite a while. They've been shown as solo pieces, as installations of 3 to 7, and as a “rain” of 65 suspended pieces.