Nurture consists of six glass vessels pinned on a stainless-steel plate, four
of those blown through steal rings. It’s about fragility and preservation,
referencing the ocean, entomology and motherhood. The objects pinned
down are similar to glass floats or buoy balls, used to float fishing nets, they
are filled with air having the quality to float, but are constraint. I brushed the
steel plate in the same way I use a brush with wet oil paint, creating a
backdrop of ripples or waves. Nurture feels like an extension of my
paintings, it comes from the same world and its material concerns are
interlaced with each other. The chemical elements of glass and stain-less
steal are on the opposite end of the periodic table, and in this work, the
merging of those materials renders a sense of weirdness and affection.