Iris 1
Hot glass, ceramic transfer print, etched copper, blown by Jim Maskrey 2006
This piece represents the interplay between the different ‘transport’ systems within the eye: in a first stage, a ceramic transfer print of my own retina was wrapped around a heart-shaped void. This was allowed to cool before the second gather, in which the piece was wrapped in a sheet of copper etched with a map of the route between my home in Bristol and Sunderland, where the piece was made.

I then cut a concave lense in the base before cutting the piece in half and polishing these exposed surfaces by hand.