Ice Fragments

Ice Fragments is a series of cast glass sculptures that draw directly from the natural textures of glacial ice and rock collected during my 2006 expedition to Palmer Station, Antarctica. Created using molds taken from icebergs, glacial melt, and surrounding geological formations, these works capture the delicate structures of a rapidly vanishing world.

The sculptures juxtapose fragility and permanence—ephemeral ice forms preserved in solid glass—highlighting the impact of climate change on polar landscapes. When placed in natural or directed light, the textured surfaces refract and scatter illumination, evoking the experience of sunlight passing through melting ice.

Cinnabar

2022

Cast Glass

26" x 17.5" x 10"

Wood Slip

2024

Cast Glass

10" x 5" x 5"

Gamage 3

2015

Cast Glass

25.5" x 15.5 x 12"

Gamage was collaged together using textures from my 2006 expedition to Palmer Station , Antarctica with the National Science Foundation, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.  It uses four textures of ice and one of rock that I found at the shore.  I found it interesting that the ice had a limited number of textures, but when rock texture was cast into glass it looks more like ice than actual ice. 

Penrhyn

2022

Cast Glass

11" x 21" x 8"

Reao

2022

Cast Glass

18" x 24" x 5"

Saloté

2019

Cast Glass

21" x 14" x 44"

Saloté was started as a composite of forest detritus and driftwood, plus wax and clay to complete the model. It was molded in rubber for making lost wax to then turn into cast glass. The idea is to create organic forms in three dimensions that reach towards and fill with light. It also fulfills my dream of transforming into "ice" my vision of glass and fully autonomous three-dimensional glass sculpture.

Ulu Oti

2022

Cast Glass

8.5” x 9” x 10”

Ambrym

2022

Cast Glass

10" x 12" x 4"

Malaita

2001

Cast Glass

36" x 7" x 9"

The Malaita editions are one of the first explorations in molding that was taken from natural objects and textures. This form was from an ivy burl from a fence in San Francisco.

Szulu

2019

Cast Glass

26" x 14" x 14"

Ice Fragment

2015

Cast Glass

14" x 15" x 6"

Ice Head

2021

Cast Glass

17 .5" x 12" x 6.5"

Ice Head was the third piece created with textures from my expedition to Palmer Station, Antarctica, with the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program in 2006.  It is entirely composed of a molded floating ice texture, a bergie bit, that we fished from the sea and took a silicone mold.  The composite was all from area of the same bit of ice.  The glass is a grey nickel/cobalt neutral color from the studio.

Norsel 2

2008

Cast Glass

17" x 17" x 6"

This block was the first piece I made upon my return from Palmer Station, Antarctica. The project was to take texture molds of the glacier ice and stone for later use in compositing sculptures in the studio. The central texture in Norsel was taken from a granitic rock at the shore of Arthur Harbor on Anvers Island, where Palmer Station is located. The ice texture was from a “bergie bit,” a small fragment of glacier ice that we fished out of the sea. The name Norsel is from one of points of land that jut into the sea off of Anvers Island.

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