Nina Casey-Brown

Surface Tensions examines how glass shapes the way we see and are seen. The artist works with hand silvered, blown, and repurposed glass mirrors to explore shifting relationships between body, space, and surface. These mirrors do not return a perfect image; instead, they reveal their own making. Folds, seams, and distortions speak to the instability of perception. 

The artist embraces the medium’s inherent unpredictability as glass stretches, collapses, and resists control. The forces of heat, gravity, expansion and rotation in the glassblowing process are embodied in the resulting objects. These forms are then translated through digital processes, allowing shifts in scale, repetition, and play, creating a dialogue between the handmade and the reproduced. 
Each work offers a quiet moment of encounter where reflections waver, the viewer’s body fragments, and inside and outside begin to blur. Here, the mirror becomes less a tool of truth and more a surface of uncertainty, inviting viewers to dwell in ambiguity rather than clarity.