Biography

I wasn't encouraged to make art growing up. But at eight years old, I won my first camera, selling religious artifacts, discovering a loophole into beauty. Though I became a psychologist instead of an artist, curiosity persisted. Years later, a friend's invitation to try glasswork changed everything. Glass became another way to witness transformation, the same unexpected evolution I'd seen in therapy. Both disciplines reveal how change happens: not through fixing what's "broken," but through heat, pressure, and time creating new forms. In glasswork, as in psychotherapy, transformation often surprises us. Guided by mentors like Steve Klein, Deborah Horrell, Nathan Sandberg, and Evelyn Gottschall Baker, I've spent nearly twenty years in this parallel practice. My experimental process of cutting, fusing, and re-firing mirrors the psychological journey: not erasing history, but integrating it, watching something unexpected emerge from deliberate risk and careful attention. Now retired from psychology, I continue exploring how materials and people transform under pressure into something they couldn't have imagined. Each finished piece feels like an artifact of discovery, evidence of resilience taking shape through uncertainty. Glass taught me what therapy confirmed: transformation is about revelation.

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