We are creators of limited series cold worked glass sculpture. Our work can be found in galleries around the country. Glass captivates us because it portrays the qualities of transparancy, reflection, depth, color, illusion and truth, as can be found reflected in the interplay of the human mind & spirit.

The Invention of Glass

Having split it from a chiseled block of quarry stone,
the smithy took the flinty chip and tossed it into a fire
he'd laid and bellowed in a rock pit near his shop.

To his surprise, the chip caught fire, sputtered out,
then caught again and burned the bluer part of flame.
The heat, he thought, grew gotter then, so much so

that the stone's own nature seemed to change,
like melting wax, and overspill the flame. To the smithy
it seemed a sign from god that stone would run that way,

and he shuddered to imagine the upshot if,
like a slain main from whom dark blood runs,
the source of that guttering stream should die.

And so, with the pike end of his blackened tongs,
he dug down into the heart of fire, lifted
that radiant nugget out and held it aloft

in the smoky air, where it shone for a moment,
effulgent as a star, a star that in the heavens marks
some long-awaited miracle to come.

Mesomedes, 300 AD