What started as a collaborative video experiment with the Manufacturing, Technology, & Engineering Laboratory at Corning, Incorporated has become part of a body of work that seeks to find a place where material observance lends way to allegory.

The slow, fluid movement of these objects as they undergo structural compromise emulates human instances of an overwhelmed human body manifested through sweat or tears. The finished condition of each cup in the video is displayed next to the projection of their changing.