Digging

To break, release and emerge-- these are some actions often associated with hatching.  As an act of birth, there is a beautiful brutality, a fragility and strength contained in the process of hatching that is proving to be difficult for me to capture in an interpreted physical form.  The images below are some sculptural experiments with materiality.  I'm imagining large surfaces, torn and punctured to reveal a translucent subsurface or membrane, glowing from within. Here I've used clay and blown glass.