Ceramic, glass, wire, and screw eyes

Permanently Installed in a children's safety center, 2023

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When I first visited the children's safety center that commissioned this work, there were thousands of hand prints decorating the walls.  Each child who visited had painted their hand and left a permanent record of their visit.  When I looked closely at these prints, it stood out to me that many were horizontally striped in vibrant colors.  Sky River is an answer to a fantastical question: what if the stripes on these prints took off and flew away? What journey could they take together?  I built many of the stripes out of ceramic but in order to pay homage to the colors of the originals I chose to use glass.  Thousands of stripes of glass were slumped in hand built ceramic molds to make the wavy forms.