For a kiln casting residency, awarded by North Lands Creative Glass in Lybster, Scotland, in 2009, I continued in the vein of the Mediterranean Suspensions series of fused and carved sheet glass sculptures. This opportunity was unique for one reason in particular, as it allowed for working with not just typical green tinted glass, but for using amber, blue, and ultra clear as well. Now color could fill the glass volumes and interior geometries, seen here carved with a varying thickness to present the spectral hues and gradations.

Along with the combinations of additional colors, this series further explored surface finishes and interor structures. Using various precision grinding tools, these objects were assembled using pre-fired and machined glass elements as well as painted enamels and air bubbles to draw interior structures suspended within the volumes.

Three colors plus clear are standard in architectural glazing and available from Pilkington in England, a company for whom the studio at North Lands is named and supported, and who in 1959 patented the modern process of making window glass, by pouring molten glass onto long pools of hot tin in order to have two smooth surfaces after cooling.