“The glass came first after a day with collaborator and friend David Flower. This glass was perhaps the most instantly aesthetically pleasing piece we made. I found myself relating it to an overheard conversation between a 8/9 yr old boy and his father at an exhibition of large expressionists paintings. He said very confidently that the exhibition was about climate change as there were trees on fire. He was right, but I couldn’t help feel concerned about how he said it. It was almost like a conditioned response. It made me think about how as a child, farmers would set their fields a light, how in certain parts of the world controlled fires are necessary and how some plants need fire to germinate, like the Sequoia trees, which are ironically endangered. Of course climate change is affecting the world, but so perhaps is a conditioned unbalanced education?”

At the heart of everything there is the need to adapt, evolve and live.