Furniture
My furniture expresses the dual nature of glass, the sensuality and fluidity of hot glass and the cold, hard, and dangerous connotation of flat glass. The signature of my furniture has always been the broken edge. This tends to be the ultimate in contradictions for me. People are drawn to touch the edge because of the intense energy produced by the refraction of light on the broken edge, even though they know in the back of their minds that the sharp edge could easily slice their fingers. I sand and polish the edge for just this reason. It is the same attraction we have to fire, seductive yet dangerous. We should look for the beauty and function of things that at first glance might appear to be broken or imperfect. This to me is a metaphor for being human. Our imperfection and unpredictability is what makes us interesting.
