In 1997 I took a one-day class in fusing and I fell in love with glass. I love working with it: real magic happens in the kiln. Working with glass is like an intimate conversation with light itself.

Most of my work in glass and mixed media is about connections of time, space and heart, and the value of looking closely. Looking closely sometimes leads to Seeing.

What I do is influenced, in more ways than I'm aware of, by roots in the coast and mountains of North Carolina... by a decade of deep attachments in Haiti and, more recently, the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico... by Gifts of learning from indigenous Peoples, especially those of our hemisphere, both North and South.... and by life teachers like Alan Watts, Kenneth Patchen, and my poet/friend Will Inman, who observed in 1966 that "Truth don't stop to pick the teeth of the man that says it."

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