Capturing Chance in Time (Created during a three-year stay in Japan)

I build a relationship between precision and chance – proving that discipline does not negate randomness and chance itself can be a way to tune in to the world around us. Uniting two distinct techniques, the vitality of glass on the blowpipe interacts with the cold precision of cast glass. For me glass is both a material of chance mutations and precisely calculated processes; both hot and cold, fluid and solid. My work form shapes oscillating between fluid and fixed states, trying to make tangible what would otherwise remain immaterial.

black calm

35cm x 16cm x 7cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

after the storm

75cm x 40cm x 78cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

after the storm

75cm x 40cm x 78cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

after the storm

75cm x 40cm x 78cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

black

84cm x 25cm x 59cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

black Crepidoma

26cm x 23cm x 11cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

white landscape (front side)

78cm x 36cm x 33cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln-cast, coldworked, hot-cast glass
photo by Kichiro Okamura

white landscape (back side)

78cm x 36cm x 33cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

white landscape

78cm x 36cm x 33cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

columns

27cm x 26cm x 35cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

columns

27cm x 26cm x 35cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

columns

27cm x 26cm x 35cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura

columns

27cm x 26cm x 35cm

(width x depth x height)

kiln casting, grinding and polishing, hot casting
photo by Kichiro Okamura