52 Card Pickup
Pâte de verre, kiln-cast glass
This piece was created in the format of a deck of playing cards, in memory of my grandmother who had just passed away. She taught me to play gin rummy when I was five, and we spent countless hours with a deck of cards between us. The glass cards scatter as if flying from a hand, echoing the childhood prank she loved to play — asking if I wanted to play “52 card pickup,” then tossing the entire deck across the floor. What begins as a joke becomes a memory object, holding both the lightness of play and the weight of loss.
This piece is part of a larger body of work exploring fear, memory, and the fragile objects we hold onto to survive the night.