Laurel Grey Glassworks
Brand · Glassware
My work begins with komorebi—a Japanese word that describes the way sunlight filters through leaves. That quiet, fleeting moment under a tree has long influenced the way I work with glass, light, movement and space.
I create contemporary glass art in Door County, Wisconsin, from my signature glass leaf strands and ornaments to my newer Sabi-Fusion sculptural work. Each glass element is hand-painted and kiln-fired, allowing me to build layers of color, transparency and texture that shift with changing light.
Sabi-Fusion brings that glass together with weathered, salvaged and found materials—objects that already carry a history. Inspired in part by the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, these pieces embrace age, imperfection and visible repair rather than hiding them. I’m interested in what happens when something overlooked or discarded is given a new context, and in challenging traditional ideas about what glass art can be.
Whether it’s sunlight moving through a suspended glass leaf or illuminating the worn surface of an old piece of steel, the impulse is much the same: to slow down, look closer, and notice the beauty already there.
