A still life of cup subjects up top attempting to represent a language of “doing things well.” The same still life below when subjected to an attempt at developing a language of “(un)doing things well.”

By channeling the tenets of skill acquisition, technical excellence, and “mastery” within contemporary craft practice, this work examines the myths and truths of “perfection” (with reliance an equally mythological motif of “perfection” within glass culture) through circumstantial instances of compromise, mishap, and surrender.