About Bad Ass Glass
I have been working with stained glass for four years, and had the good fortune to hone my Bad Ass chops at my friend’s basement stained glass studio. It was incredible to have her state of the art studio and expertise at my disposal, not to mention all of the glass scraps and tools to play around with. I began to create a body of work inspired by old school tattoo flash and Sci-Fi Art, and we hit the craft fair circuit. Since then the symbolism and imagery continues to evolve outward in different tangents of tattoo inspired expression.
I see connections between the tendencies toward the subversive both in the tattoo arts and in my approach to glass design and choices of imagery. The level of irony and wit that tattoo clients apply to their subject matter and image choices, and how that lends itself to my incorporating tattoo flash with the exhalted tradition of stained glass, can lead the viewer to unexpected revelations.
In the cold winter months of 2009-2010, I transformed my leaky basement into a Bad Ass Glass den of Zen. I now spend afternoons in my basement studio cutting, grinding and soldering scrap metal and glass into new and unconventional configurations. Most of my design work is done in the evenings, at work or in my home studio, and is inspired by my own interests, and invaluable brainstorming sessions with my friends. I’ve been fascinated with tattoos, drawing, painting, crafting, Science Fiction, Science, monster movies, outlaws, anti-heroes, and rogue characters in general since I was in elementary school.
As a multi-media artist, as well as avid packrat and recycler, the opportunity to merge my creative endeavors with my drive to repurpose bits of glass and metal into new incarnations, is a natural path to tread. I’ve dabbled in a little bit of many media, painting, woodworking, photography, printmaking, tattooing, collage, found art, computer art, and of course stained glass. The possibilities are endless when taking apart objects and recombining them into new forms, and I amazed at the array of creative invention in the things that people have made from other things.