We đź’” New York

We New York

Kiln-formed and cold-worked glass, found plate, installation 8cm high x 30cm x 30cm, 2022.

The month after Italy, troubles in New York City made it clear that North America would not escape the worst of the pandemic. I started this technically challenging piece after meeting a deeply worried woman whose daughter and son-in-law were paramedics in Brooklyn, working 24-hour life-and-death shifts in reused masks and often missing other PPE. The bagel may be frivolous, but the broken hearts are sincere.

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