This began with fingernails making marks in refractory bricks from an old kiln. A fascination with how soft yet so strong this material is. That quickly moved into making marks with old nails, hacksaw blades, and the Dremel. Marks turning into symbols, symbols coming together making stories, stories from patterns around me spurring thoughts and emotions coming through me, now frozen forever in these bricks.
Once glazed, the firing in the kiln bonded them together, forming a three-dimensional sculpture. Eventually, when I ran out of old bricks, the work transitioned into my first love, clay, and these bricks started to climb the walls. I knew these stories in patterns had to continue.
So became The Refractory Series.
Hades has been watching over the river sticks for all of time. Finally, he wanted a break. He asked his Mrs. if she could watch over the place just for a little while, a millennium or two. She said, of course, and that she would be happy to. As soon as she took over the job, all the souls coming into the river, stopped being souls and turned into eyes. Because mystics have always said, the eyes are the true windows to the soul.
