In my glasswork, I am attempting to create a visual bridge between two aesthetics: the primal aesthetic of the natural world and the aesthetic of the created form. This bridge both honors the natural world as untamed and opaque, and transcends it with transparency. In the medium of glass, I have discovered my real passions. I find glass to be physically tactile, yet a surprisingly primal substance. In the joining of cast glass to natural stone, I am trying to find ways to aesthetically compliment or echo original and naturally-occurring forms with mirror-image glass forms. These joined pieces trigger for me -- and, I hope for the viewer -- a sense of awe and wonder. Relatively small in terms of the large, greater world, they become scaled-down representatives -- allowing us to take the grandeur of the natural world into our city spaces.