This body of interrelated works uses video, glass, magnets, water, and mirrors to explore scientific and traditional concepts of time and reality. Translating these ideas into tangible models and visceral experiences, the works focus on a central concept in physics: symmetry (in which a physical property or process has an equivalence in two or more directions). The work is informed equally by the writings of theoretical physicist Brian Greene and my research as a Fulbright Fellow in Indonesia. There, I focused on Javanese ideas about interrelationship between humans, nature and the supernatural, especially the idea that we interact with everything in our world, including much that our bodies are not designed to perceive. The Glass System opened at the North Dakota Museum of Art during the 47th University of North Dakota Writers Conference, where I was on multiple art-and-science panels with Brian Greene, as well as science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson.
I use The Glass System title in homage to late filmmaker and friend, Mark Lapore.
