The Permanent Collection • Coming Soon •
The Permanent Collection • Coming Soon •
Coming July 2025!
Eight different colors of my previously-exhibited glass pouch vases to choose from will be permanently for sale in my shop and made to order
The Permanent Collection
Color Options:
How it started…
I started making these pouches in college for a lighting assignment. Around the same time, I was experimenting with ceramic fabric and working up to my undergraduate exhibition, so I think the fabric excitement bled over into my glass work and never left.
The Inspiration
I love working with fabric as an inspiration, it is definitely a continued obsession of mine. I love drawing and painting fabric, I love making clay or glass look like fabric. Fabric brings a narrative movement to any piece to me and the obsession started in high school so I don’t know if I’ll ever get bored of it.
How they are made
I start out by adding a layer of bar color and gathering a few layers of glass from the furnace. I blow out the bubble until I have a large round form. I will overheat the piece until it begins to collapse and is very melty, and then immediately rest it on a hot plate to flatten the bottom and create the fabric folds. Then my partner will putty the piece and flip it over so I can stretch out the top of the piece and end up with the finished pouch vases that you see now.
Final Thoughts
I love these pouches, they are so fun to make because of the process, each one is unique with its own fold structure and movement. I think they have become a more abstract and elegant representation of fabric over time.
