Can power and weakness co-exist in harmony?  In art, yes. And in life?  Yes.

When I create works in bronze, I explore the dynamics of strength and frailty by making vessels with figures small and childlike.  But because the figures are of bronze, there is an unexpected strength experienced in the qualities of the material.  Metal has substance.  It sustains. 

When I create works in glass, I explore the dynamics of light and transformation found in a material made into form through fire.  Glass allows light to go through the artwork, to journey, to touch infinity.

Both media are made through a process involving fire.  Metal, bendable under extreme circumstance, virtually unbreakable.  Glass is fragile, easily broken. Can power and weakness co-exist?  In art, yes, and in life, yes.

Glass and metal in my work provide opportunities to impose the best of two worlds, weight and strength through the metal, and a kind of power and clarity, a brilliance and an almost "non-surface", non-substance visual dynamic through the glass.

Bronze is my first love.  It has a life; it breathes. Metal flows. Glass flows.  Both of these came into being with fire and heat, oxygen and earth's elements.  It is exciting to see earth, fire, and air, all energy forces come into being as a new form, a new life - all dependent on each other in order to exist.

Can the weak and powerful co-exist?  In nature, in art, in life, yes.  In harmony?  It is my hope.

TRUDY MARSHALL