Xeno Glassworks

The idea for the bracelets came so interestingly I'll start there. I was working on a series of lovely but dangerous three-dimensional glass flowers, sculptures that featured cut glass on edge. I had been experimenting with fusing barbed wire between sheet glass in the kiln with interesting results, but I knew nothing about hard-glass (borosilicate, familiar as Pyrex), nor about torch-working.
One day out of the blue I saw in my mind's eye a silhouette of a glass bracelet. It was exquisite. I had never seen anything like it but I was intrigued by its beauty and the apparent contradiction of wearing glass, a material assumed to be so fragile. With a little investigation I discovered the extraordinary strength of industrial glass and got an introduction to basic lamp working through a woman with tremendous grace on the torch, Theresa Kowalski. My brother Steve Miller set me up on his welding torch. This was 1983. I have been making bracelets ever since.