 My inspiration is really through my connection from my past, from my great-grandparents, both fine instrument makers. So I guess I feel like I've always had that sort of inspiration through my hand. As a maker, I draw most of my inspiration from hand tools, specifically the caliper. The caliper being the measuring device that comes in all shapes and sizes. There are a hand tool that I use for measurement perfection, you know, making something the same, making multiples of the same. So, you know, there's a really nice transition between that and then glass. So I currently use calipers to measure my pieces, so I can use those calipers not only to measure, but I've also taken my inspiration of the negative space of the caliper, a lovely little connection between the hand tools and the physical use of those tools. There was a huge learning curve to learn how to blow glass, you know, it's very difficult. It's a degree of technical ability to get the shape of the glass to what you want it to do. It takes years and years and I'm just a beginner at this. The furnace at the Camberglass works as a tank furnace. It holds 350 kilos of the glass. It runs 24 7365 days a year at about a temperature of about 1150 degrees. The furnace is full of clear glass, so it's made up of basically a lot of different chemicals and sand. It's a little bit the same consistency as honey, if you like. For me, the hot shop's a place where I take my basic forms and shape and form those ad color to me if I want. It gives me the chance to play with the glass and experiment in some ways, so sometimes I will go in there and not necessarily with any particular idea, but just to free myself up and let the glass to speak for itself in a way. It has an ability in a lot of ways to just create its own beautifully unique shape. You know, it takes a bit of molten glass and blow it into a lovely piece, a lovely natural form, or you can really define what that form needs to be by using tools and really shaping the glass and getting what you want. A lot of my work is about precision and things being just right, you know, the right curves, the right forms, but there's also a lovely freedom of being able to just let the glass speak for itself.