You know that feeling you get when you see a piece of art that speaks to you?  Maybe it reminds you of your Dad, or your first dog, or the summer cottage where you spent a week in July every summer as a child.  Maybe you don't even know why, but you can't look away and you can't leave it behind

That we can connect so strongly with a piece of art is astonishing to me, and that I can produce something with these hands and witness that connection is a privilege I cherish.  

Lampworking is my preferred medium - molten glass right there in my hands, moving, changing, challenging and rewarding me in real time with an infinite number of possible outcomes.  

The road I travel each night as I drift off to sleep is paved with blown, blasted and cast glass and metal pieces that speak to the trials and tribulations we face today and celebrate the human potential for greatness, and I wake each morning with a renewed desire to make them a reality.