In the summer of 1992 I had the great good fortune to take a course with the Italian Glassmaster Pino Signoretto at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State. Pino is an amazing hot glass sculptor, he routinely works with masses of molten moving glass weighing over 100 pounds. I watched him create a piece in two hours. It was of a man from a Greek legend chained to the rocks. It was about a foot and a half tall and you could see everything. The chains, the muscles straining, hands, eyes, genitalia, all in perfect detail, all in hot glass using only his hand tools and assistants bringing him ‘bits’ of molten glass to add to the sculpture. I have never seen anything like it. I visited his studio in Murano, Italy. I was amazed by the variety of his work. Like Lino, Pino is considered to be one of the greats.

So, I should say that I am a bit odd (like this is news) I love pregnant women. I think that they look so good. The full round form of the belly, distended with new life, is such an amazing sight. I made this for my girl friend at the time, a woman who is now my wife, Allison. She doesn’t show this to many people, I was amazed when she offered it for this show.

In case you were wondering, Joanne and I had split up on a personal level in the spring of ’92, although we had kept the business together.