On Exhibit at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve

I'm delighted to have been invited to participate in the summer exhibition of artworks inspired by Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve. The works are on display throughout the summer in the Park's visitors' center. My piece, Medano Morning, was inspired by a frosty November morning hiking by the dunes next to Medano Creek. The medium is enameling: glass fused to copper at high heat. The piece was fired over 25 times, successive layers of powdered glass applied and fused each time. In this piece, the sand dunes are shown via light reflecting off the underlying copper through a translucent enamel. Opaque enamels are used for most other colors. For the fallen leaves nestled in tracks along the dunes, light reflects off the silver foil under transparent amber enamels. But even all this copper, silver, glass, and reflectancy can only hint at the radiance of a brisk, silent morning along a half-frozen creek with morning sun pouring through brilliant autumn leaves...