Fear No More (2024)

This work explores my complex relationship with my own blood; it is both the life force that sustains me and a carrier of the very same HIV virus that I watched kill my first lover, John.  Despite medical advances that mean the viral load in my blood is undetectable (and therefore untransmittable), I am still conditioned from the early decades of the AIDS epidemic to view my blood – and its (latent) destructive potential – with horror and fear.  Working with glass, this is a feeling I have occasion to confront regularly.

The title comes from Shakespeare's Cymbeline (via Sondheim's "The Frogs").

The colour of the gold ruby enamel is only achievable due to a special reaction in the kiln with the tin side of float glass.

Fear No More
Layers of enamelled glass, fabric
47h x 110w x 9d cm (x3)/47h x 33w x 9d cm (each)
2024