Glass, Steel

Installation view

The work emerged from the proposition of giving breath a form, something visible, tangible, and held. I conceptualised each exhalation as a line moving through space, a fragile vector that carries both direction and intensity before thinning away. A vector is defined as a quantity with both magnitude and direction, but for my purposes it is also a way of thinking about how forces move, orient, and alter. Magnitude speaks to intensity, the strength of a breath, while direction speaks to where that force is heading, the orientation of a movement through space. To think vectorially is to imagine the world as a mesh of trajectories, an ongoing traffic of pushes, pulls, accelerations, hesitations.

Each individual glass form bears the trace of a particular magnitude and direction, a breath driven along its length, a stronger or weaker exhalation, a decisive or faltering gesture, a pulling or pushing of the molten glass, and a certain direction that has since been draped, kinked, or slowed. They attempt to hold onto these unstable tendencies.