It is believed that storytelling is one of the many things that define and bind our cultures and humanity. Recently, my sculptural works explore the narrative and storytelling. Using glass as a material to speak of my concepts, I have become the storyteller- of an individual’s economic and social positioning as well as their gender role in society. I challenge the viewer with contemporary topics of sociological aspects of the working-class and their tools of blue-collar labor.
Using mixed media and glass; I have the ability to express the diversity and complexity of the human existence- of strength and fragility, beauty and pain. Glass displays ghostly reminiscences, representing a personal history or memory left behind. It can also portray a lack of memory, representing the invisibility of an uncomfortable emotion. Glass becomes a window for the viewer to explore what might otherwise never be seen.
Clothing, used as a skin to cover the vulnerable and fragile body, is rendered transparent in glass. The viewer can see through the superficial definitions of gender and status to a personal truth without the exterior facade society so readily judges.