I was watching "Star Trek the Next Generation," and there was an alien space ship that was discovered to be alive. It had been grown to be a space ship, it was also sentient, self-aware. Cool. I also remembered an old Star Trek where there was a creature made of silica and it burrowed around this planet for some reason that the Enterprise was interested in. Since glass is made from silica (sand) I found myself wondering what a living glass space creature would look like.

I called them Satteliods. There were three: Rosebud, Roy and Stacy. Rosebud came from Citizen Kane, I have no idea where Roy and Stacy came from.

These pieces also have another feature that is not immediately obvious. There is a hole that goes right through them, top to bottom. Unlike most of my work, these will not hold water. According to the United States Treasury Department if an object will hold water it is craft and at the time subject to a 20% duty, but if it will not hold water it is art, and therefore duty free. Thanks to these and a couple of other pieces, the U.S. Treasury Department considers me an artist. (Actually the customs official rather more colourfully put it this way "If I can piss in it, it’s craft. If I can piss on it it’s art.")