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Macro photography brings out the details in glass pot melts that I create in my kiln. This image is from an area of 1/2" x 5/8" in glass piece that is approximately 1/8" thick. The thickness and just the right lighting help create depth and dimension. These photographs look exceptionally bright when printed on metal.

I first began exploring and working with glass in 1989, while employed as a research biochemist in New York. I had always admired many types of glass, including stained, torch-worked and blown, but had focused on science rather than art or craft until this time. My first pieces were created using the copper-foil stained glass methods, learned from a book and, later, videos and experimentation. Kiln-worked glass was beginning to re-emerge as a respected glass art form around this time, and I found it to be an intriguing and less common technique to use to achieve some of the designs I envisioned. At this point, I was just interested in creating glass pieces for myself and as gifts, but friends coerced me into showing my work at art...