Impel
Impel places cognitive experience within a social context, exploring how connections, interactions, and impingements contribute to the ongoing change and evolution in how we see ourselves in relation to the world.
Bend
Bend is inspired by the mesmerizing patterns formed by light refracted through undulating glass. Colors and forms weave together in seamless patterns. From another angle, 'bend' explores how we shape our own reality. We are perpetually constructing our narratives—incorporating new experiences, forgetting some details and remembering others, and shifting emphases to create a cohesive, compelling pattern. Our individual narratives evolve across time, rippling into those of others.
Emerge
Emerge is an exploration of the constructive process of consciousness. By means of attending, a coherent conscious moment of being emerges from a fleeting, fluid background of neuronal activity. This moment fades and a new set of sensations come to the fore. These moments of attending take place within contexts—the internal contexts of personal history and perceptions and the external or social contexts to which we are so keenly attuned.
Realize
It is through an act of focused attention that we transform myriad inputs into a moment of being, a fully realized view of a given point in time. The spare and fluid outlines of the background point to the finite nature of human conscious experience. We are aware of but unable to fully comprehend the entire context of history and experience.
Recall
Recall of personally relevant events or experiences, is central to our sense of who we are. Helping adults access those memories and express their narratives was my work in my earlier career in healthcare as a speech-language pathologist. Now, in the Recall series, my passion for cognition and communication as central to our humanity is connected with my work in mosaics.
Enfold
Enfold is concerned with understanding place as transcending physical structures to include our experience and memory and associations. Enfold offers an abstract connection with the raw, spectacular beauty of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia--incorporating forms inspired by sky, rock and water. The shimmer and shine of glass and gold reflects the constantly changing tides, mists and weather at the Bay of Fundy.
Float
Offers discontinuous views of a shimmering sphere moving through space and time.
Verge
Glass, 24k gold smalti and grout embedded in cement board (24x24s) or mounted on cement board (8x8s).
Verge is concerned with understanding place as transcending physical structures to include our experience and memory and associations. Verge is inspired by the Lake Michigan lakeshore. The spare composition of glass floating in cement board points to the close proximity of the natural and built environments. The lake itself is a blank yet dynamic palette, marking the space between sky and land. The lake reads as a liminal space: water at the verge of sky and land.