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Many of his pieces focus on the tension between the utilitarian and the artistic object. Untitled is an example of his lasting preoccupation with this concept. The basic form underlying the sculpture is the ordinary and stereotypically functional plate, easily recognizable and a standard shape for the traditional glassmaker. With this basic form as his starting point, he converts the functional object into an art object. Distended, curving shapes render the basic form unusable as the artist explores the sculptural abstraction of the everyday.