Professor Hawkins at the university of Reading first shared a climate stripes graphic in 2017, using coloured stripes to represent the global average temperature for each year since 1850. He used blue for the cooler temperatures and red for the hotter years. 

When I translated his graphic into glass, it gives a stark visual of how human action has contributed to a heating up of the climate over time. 

It made me think about the process of the kiln fusing is similar in that it takes the glass from a cold form and warms it gently, changing its composition over time until it reaches its top temperature, then it starts to cool again and settles in a new composition as a fully fused sheet.               I wonder what will happen to the earth when it reaches its top temperature? 

As the quote which came from a tweet that filmmaker Shekhar Kaur made, 2021 for World Earth Day, Humans may not live to see the results.

Work exhibited in the Nature in Glass exhibition, Leicestershire and Bristol. 2024