Everyone has skeletons. What a unifying concept! We have an oddly distant relationship with our own insides. I enjoy carving out the anatomy of the glass pieces I work on, and bring those details to the surface. This particular piece is a break from my usual style as I made all the bones, cold carved their fine details and gently fire polished every piece before assembly, rather than carving a skeleton out of a bubble of layered glass that my collaborator has shaped.

This piece was made in collaboration with Sibelle Yüksek. “Hell Hath No Fury” is a functional sculpture of a victorious female warrior figure posed on a pile of disarticulated bones and hearts, holding a sword piercing a bleeding heart. The function is hidden in the skewered skull on a spike. The female warrior is adorned in a skull mask, boots with spurs that spin, and biomechanical skeletal arms. Many details have been fired with 23k gold and platinum lusters. The bone pile is her trophies from centuries of battle. This assemblage evolved throughout the build and took on personal meaning, as the two of us continued to work together on it.