Friendship

Jen gave this Glass Cathedral to her friend Kate when she moved away, capturing a moment early in their friendship when they toasted the sunset on the beach.

"We are a group of mums who have been thru the peaks and valleys together in parenting our kids from 5yrs-14yrs old as the kids graduate and move into new directions."

This was commissioned for Elizabeth's birthday, and boy did these gorgeous Californian ladies have fun sending me descriptions and photos to recreate them in miniature! And apparently their kids could recognise each one of them immediately!

Aaron described how, during the pandemic, nine friends bubbled together and survived that superweird yet life-affirming time in one large house. He asked me to create each of the nine in miniature looking up at the (relatively) super-size mask, capturing these friendships and the unique masking-era that cemented them.

What a snazzy and stylish crew to get to makes so very tiny! I was struck by the extra literal dimension of this commission, that the enclosed space in the Glass Cathedral mirrored the enclosed bubble of that time.

Giant art made miniature!