Brittle Beauty: Coral Fragment
Cast glass
Cast from a coral fragment held in an Edinburgh natural history collection.

Brittle Beauty grew from encounters with marine specimens and a fascination with the intricate structures held in shells, corals and other remains. Through casting and glassblowing, these forms were translated into glass - a material that carries its own tension between strength and fragility, permanence and fracture. The works consider specimens as traces of once-living systems: objects of beauty, but also records of vulnerability and loss.