Each piece begins with recycled glass, much of it collected from schools and everyday bottles, including the familiar green glass of Mexican Coca-Cola. Once molten, the glass has to be worked quickly. The blower turns, stretches, opens and compresses the form while it is still responsive, relying on experience to find the right balance and proportion.

Such a handmade process is bound to leave its traces. Variations in shape, thickness and the natural bubbles that form become signatures of the process, evidence of the hand that made them. No two pieces are ever exactly alike.