When the opportunity for a show at the Bolinas Museum arose, I had very little time to prepare for it.  Normally it takes a year to eighteen months.  We had about two weeks.  That called for, among other things, a lot of coldworking very fast.  

I went to Napa to work with my friend Jen and try out some new equipment.  And also, to be fair, to enjoy some of her husband Ken’s pizza.  Then Gina came out and put the finishing touches on the much-lamented checkerboard.  Now that Covid is receding, one of the fun things about glass art is that you do not retreat to a garret to struggle all by yourself.  You go out, at last, to play with your friends.

Want to visit the show in person? Find the details here. Or watch the Virtual Artist Talk:

When they got it all set up with proper lights and displays, we went down to see it. I had never seen most of my stuff outside the garage. This was quite thrilling. One of the fun things is that they displayed the glass pieces with a lot of my photographs (see below).

This photo of me on the “bergie bit” was a lot dumber than it looks. The berg was very close to shore so I hopped on. That shifted the weight and the ice began to float away. Fortunately it did not move very fast and I got off without falling in. But being in that water is not a good idea.

The environment is what I know about but it has become impossible not to think hard about racial divides in this country. This piece imagines the white supremacists reigning supreme. We tried it for some time, and it it simply does not work. A small comment on the necessity for diversity of experience, talents, expectations, aspirations, and geography.