This glass panel series is about the self-imposed loss that I recently experienced by leaving my home and my spouse. We built a home together, and it was supposed to last. When it did not, I memorialized it in transformative, translucent, and layered form.

To create this series, I manipulate glass and then apply heat in a kiln to achieve a variety of effects, from fully fusing individual pieces to heating glass powder just enough to hold together against gravity. For the interior pieces, I reference photos of the home that we remodeled together, conduct a series of sketches, and then cut and arrange hundreds of individually cut pieces of glass into three distinct layers to create each composition. For the powder pieces, I sift powdered glass onto sheet glass in a controlled pattern, use paint brushes and other tools to manipulate the dry powder, and then fire the pieces until the powder sticks to itself but the original texture remains.