Experiments
Tests, side paths and first attempts that fed the cameo work. Back to Process
Mars, from HiRISE terrain data
Glass made from a HiRISE digital terrain model of the Martian surface (a .img file from the University of Arizona's HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). The terrain data becomes a printed model, the model becomes a mold, and the mold becomes glass. The mold was planned with the Mold Worksheet from the artist's own toolkit. Shown: the fired glass beside its mold, two close-ups, the printed model and molds, and the worksheet with the mold box.
David: positive and void
Two pieces from two different prints. In the first, a white figure of David sits in a box whose walls were formed in the kiln. For the second, the printed mold shown here was filled with cobalt-free sapphire blue glass and fired. Together they show the difference in what was printed: a white positive is the opposite of a void in blue.
Machine-drawn sgraffito
A machine pushes powdered glass frit across a sheet of glass with a soft silicone nib, drawing by moving the powder aside, and the sheet is then kiln-fired. Shown: Digital Harmony and Untitled, both 2020.
One 3D-printed mold, two results
A single 3D-printed mold used two ways: once for plain cast glass, and once for cameo glass.
Chamber track, 2014
An early piece carrying a small section of a particle-chamber track from Fermilab's search for neutrinos.
