hold yourself together is a piece that comes from a person's relationship with their body in times of trauma. Once a part of a person is removed they must continue on as a different human being.

The stitch is something that is used to bring two things together, and after the separation of skin sutures are something that are used to make the two edges of a wound one. This form of repair forces two things together that causes a ridge of scarring to form. This scarring is a line of the skin that physical trauma has drawn, which has left a permanent scar on their skin forever.

Once something happens to a person there is no way to go back. Working with glass is similar in that once part of the glass is removed, there is no true way to repair it.  This piece consists of sheet glass made in the hotshop that has then been diamond wheel engraved in a way that removes parts of the top layer of color in order to create an image within the glass itself.  With engraving the removal of material creates something new, which resonates deeply with how a person’s identity is formed. Once something has happened to us we can never go back.

This work can now be viewed at Kuhn Honors and Scholars Center at The Ohio State University