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I love boxes and always have. I’ve used them as time capsules since I was little growing up in Blacklick Ohio and still have most of them. I actually started making my own boxes as a teenager using stained glass. I tend to be self-taught and the first boxes of glass that I made, I used lead came (usually used for windows), and those make me blush when I look back at them. I learned the Tiffany technique of copper foil and began sandwiching fabrics like chiffons and lames and silks between two layers of glass in a landscape kind of feeling. Each box was a one of a kind. I made and sold those Collage Boxes internationally throughout the 1980’s.
In the 1990’s, I began playing with light and lighting. One endeavor was a Moon Luminary. These had a cast glass moon face projected onto a frosted glass which created a wavering holographic feeling and was a popular candle sconce. During the same time, I also made Prairie Lamps, an Arts and Crafts style table lamp. Both of which were made and sold throughout the 1990’s.
After working with lighting, I realized I missed making boxes. I found old machines from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s that had been used in metal fabrication and taught myself how to form a box from metal. Someone looked at one of my early creations and said, “it looks like a reliquary”. I’ve been learning how to make Reliquary Boxes ever since the late 1990’s. They are my favorite things to make. I hope you can feel that when you hold one in your hands.
I live along the mighty Hudson River in upstate NY and have for the last 30 some years. I have a studio with too many things and I fall in love with rocks and small broken odds and ends too easily.
