PROMETHEUS

This monumental work contemplates humankind’s abiding fascination with the mystery of fire – organic phenomena that destroys in its own creation. This core paradox underscores the work’s mixed media of glass, wood, silicon and electricity, a material palette which can be either edified or degraded by fire. Referencing the myth of Prometheus who, after stealing fire from the gods, baked a clay anthropoid form into which Athena breathed and thereby made human life, the work explores the cultural history of creation itself – echoing the process of glassmaking in more ways than one.