Reflective Glass Beads, Body, Projection
37” x 56” x 1/4”
2019
In What Lies Beneath, I wanted to explore the reflective glass beads as a solid screen and how the body could be abstracted through the screen. The closer the figure’s touch, the easier it is to make out; but as it retreats the shadow of it’s existence disappears. There is a duality between the screen and the skin - meaning the body, the self; often there are parts of the self that are kept beneath the surface.
There are parts of one's identity that we hide consciously or subconsciously. They scratch and caress but never make their way to the surface. Screens are membranes, skins that we interact with via touch. What Lies Beneath explores the pieces of identity that may not want to be openly expressed. The reflective glass bead panel, laying on the ground, becomes an icy portal that is viewed from above. The figure and panel are both enchanting and haunting at the same time. The projection of the video causes the panel to glow and draws the viewer in, presenting the eerie and seductive figure contained beneath it’s surface.
Glass, Silicone, Wedding Gloves, Body
Performance dimensions vary, dimensions of gloves: 13” x 5 1/2” x 2 1/2” , dimensions of book: 3 3/4” x 5” x 1/2”
2018
(Photographs, bound sequentially into a book)
Photography by Jacob Polcyn-Evans
Silicone, Glass Beads, Body
Performance Stills from Video
2018
Photography and Video by Jacob Polcyn-Evans
Lay Me Down to Rest is a performance involving the body and a glass blanket. The piece explores the creation of safe and comfortable places, and the often taxing journey to that accompanies it. The blanket was created through a process of fusing thin sheets of reflective glass beads in a kiln, and applying silicone and more beads to the underside. During the performance the body becomes a tool to break and crack the solid sheet of glass into a flexible blanket; by embracing, kneading, and compressing, the blanket transforms from an unusable, solid sheet, to a useable blanket that can envelope and comfort the body that created it.
VIDEO : https://vimeo.com/305395839
Reflective Glass Beads, Silicone, LEDS, Sensors, Glass Head Pins, Chair
31” x 32” x 32”
2018
Photography by Elizabeth Lamark
Soft Glass
variable dimensions
2018-2019
Flameworked Borosilicate
Various Dimensions
2018
Photography by Sara Collins
Silicone, Glass Beads, Body
Performance Stills from Video
2018
VIDEO : https://vimeo.com/295198255
30" x 14" x 13"
Fused Glass, Silicone
2018
Photography by Eric Meeker
24" x 5 1/2" x 4"
Fused and Flameworked Glass
2017
7" x 4 3/4" x 2 1/4"
Flameworked Glass, Pine
2016
10" x 5" x 2 1/4"
Flameworked Glass, Thread, Human Hair
2016
Cast Glass, Cement, Steel rod, Wolf pelt
2014
Ram
Ram Skull, Glass
13” x 9” x 5 3/4”
2013-2014
"Ram" was the first of my Mend series. I was inspired by the complex and beautiful texture of bone. The dichotomy of strength and delicacy of each layer begged to be recreated by glass. By using thin layers of fused fit, I emulated the texture and color of bone to meticulously mend the broken Ram skull. Each layer grows from the last, tiny pieces filling the void and making the once incomplete skull full. Mending, by nature, is a human process; we are incapable to accept that the broken is lost forever, and welcome the idea that mending is a process that we can control.
Ram Currently in private collection in Bergen, Norway.
Deer
Deer Skull, Glass
11” x 6” x 11 1/2”
2014
Blind Mice
Glass, Mice Skulls, Insect Pins, Pine, Fabric
5" x 3" x 14 1/4"
2014
Glass, Enamel, Red Oak
11 1/4” x 3 1/2” x 7”
2014
Glass, Enamel, Pine
13 1/2" x 3/4" x 29 1/2"
2014
