This piece is featured in the show Objects: USA 2020 at R & Co Gallery in NYC.  The show which is curated by Glenn Adamson hails a new generation of designers, artists and craftspeople by revisiting a groundbreaking event that redefined and elevated American Craft. In 1969, an exhibition organized by Lee Nordness and Paul J. Smith opened at the Smithsonian Institution and redefined the American studio craft movement. Objects: USA included 308 artists inventing new approaches to art-making by way of craft media. The show toured 22 museums across the country and 11 cities in Europe. Included in the group were artists Sheila Hicks, Wendell Castle, Ron Nagle, Dale Chihuly and many others.

My piece is an homage to the innocence of falling in love represented in part by the imagery of the old fashioned tunnel of love carnival ride. The swan cars emerge from the tunnel full of hope bubbles and will quickly and blindly fall over the edge of the jadeite waterfall.  A female figure rests at the base of the mountain bathing in the bubbles and luxuriating in the lushness of the meadow.

This piece is created out of flameworked and pressed jadeite glass.