Portfolio > The wildLIFE Project

Sarcophagus takes the form of a funerary object, pairing a glass coffin with hand-blown glass tusks. Created during a residency at Pilchuck Glass School with the assistance of Nancy Callan and Dan Friday, the work draws on the language of preservation and display.

The piece emerged in response to photographic documentation of poached elephant tusks—images that reveal the violence behind the ivory trade. Translated into glass, the tusks become both precious and fragile, their material clarity contrasting with the brutality they reference. Encased within the coffin-like structure, they evoke absence as much as presence, suggesting a memorial not only to individual animals, but to the ongoing loss driven by human demand.