My glass work represents a personal language created through manipulating color, composition, texture and action.  Although there is no actual paint used, I use the glass powders more like paint to create a visual history of my own response to working with these elements.  I use primarily powders and frit because it's a much looser way to translate and execute my ideas into a glass compostion while still maintaining an ethereal quality to my work.  It is an intuiitve process that requires as much seeing and contemplating as it does in the actual creating of the piece.  My process differs a little with each piece but basically consists of fusing panels of sheet glass together which have been previously fused seperately with powders. The process is a lengthy one, often requiring upwards of 10 firings over at least as many days.  Often I combine the glass with a copper or steel mounting.  The contrast of the hard industrial feel of the metal combined with the ethereal quality of the glass juxtaposes the reality of what is with the dream of what could be.