KUMO (CLOUD) SERIES, 2006–Ongoing
Solid glass
1.75 x 1.75 x 1.75 in (4.45 x 4.45 x 4.45 cm) – 48 x 96 x 0.5 in (121.92 x 243.84 x 1.27 cm), various
Each work in the Kumo (Cloud) series begins with a photograph of a cloud, an exact record of a moment in the sky. Clouds function as natural clocks, registering time in milliseconds, and as spatial coordinates that locate a specific point within the continuum of change. In my practice, they serve as markers of self-location, anchoring both time and place.
The photograph is translated into millions of microscopic points, etched as fine fractures within the surface of optical glass. In the largest works, more than twenty million fractures form the cloud’s structure, dispersing the image into a field of refraction. What begins as an atmospheric instant is reconstituted as a material object that endures beyond the moment it depicts.
Glass occupies an ambiguous state: fragile yet resistant to decay, more enduring than steel or stone, neither fully liquid nor crystalline but suspended between stability and flux. Clouds embody the opposite condition. They have no fixed form, existing only as continuous movement and dispersal. Together they create a dialogue between what persists and what dissolves, placing permanence and impermanence in the same frame.
Since 2006, the Kumo (Cloud) series has been exhibited at the Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; The Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Luftmuseum, Amberg, Germany; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan; and the Monmouth Museum, Middletown, NJ.
