Artist Statement
I love landscapes. Unlike the traditional symbols of stained glass design, I'm looking for
something more elemental, more solid. What excites me is the underlying architecture
of the scene - the lines, the details, the movement - things that drew me to it in the
first place. Those foundations don't break down or get weary with time, familiarity or
changing styles. They always, always work.
Because these mosaic landscapes are made almost wholly of rectangles and squares,
it might seem that I have a calculated, mathematical approach to creating them. Not
so. The "art" part of the fusion is this: I have no patterns for my work. I have images --
usually snapshots I've taken -- and ideas, and instincts, and a lot of experience with glass.
So I simply start, interacting with the materials and the image, as if in a live conversation.
New ideas emerge as I work, and those provide the boldness and the spirit that I want.
The constraints of my rectangular, architectural forms simply give those ideas the support
they need.
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