Testimonial

“While I was in Boulder I wasn’t working on any single specific project, rather opening new doorways for projects into the future. A month is a short amount of time to get anything completed so it was just a great opportunity to focus my thoughts on new ideas and use the resources (mostly the minds of the professors and researchers at the universities) available to develop new concepts. I wanted to start something – or at least open a doorway, I could continue with at home. I ended up with 3 or 4 “workable” ideas to continue with and am currently evolving one of them into a collaborative project with a glass artist here in Melbourne. I spent a couple of days at the Ice Core Facility in Denver (the NSAICF) examining and photographing the Ice Core samples (drilled from Antarctica and around 400,000 years old) with some really interesting results. One kind of photographic process we were using had never been done before with the particular samples we were using and so it was a really valuable experience for everyone. We’re now trying to re-create the effects of the photography with glass on a larger scale, as sculptural works – still experimenting with the processes involved but will hopefully see some great results sometime in the next few months.

I also had some great learning experiences with a few of the more technologically minded professors at CU, a crash course in optics and laser building from one of the true pioneers in that field (Merrill Lessley) and an introduction to floatation tank therapy from MC Flux which I’m continuing to use as a creative tool.”