Artwork description: The growing preoccupation in my practice is to understand how materials can become thresholds to grander realities. Moving between glass and light, I amplify attention to the immeasurable universe. This methodology embodies the move from mundane to transcendent.  The longstanding hypothesis for the origin of the universe is that it began with an explosion where light is an essential force that bonds and forms stars.  My kinetic glass work  is informed and inspired by this research. Experimenting with the Rupert’s Drop, I see the similarity between the disintegration of a glass droplet and the explosion of the universe. Through glass-blowing processes, I captured the aftermath of the disintegration inside an orb which then became a lens.  A slowly spinning light creates a projection through the orb. The irregular texture of the glass results in constantly changing cosmic imagery, which is carried by the blown glass dome and the resulting caustic reflections. The mechanism of the system is revealed (if one looks close enough) by the convex mirror underneath.