Sally Pennington Moore

I have been creating things all my life. 

For the first 35 years of my professional science career I modeled the earth to evaluate and exploit economic mineral deposits.  I examined the strata to understand fluid flow and the effects of temperature and pressure on mineral development. I integrated disparate data to form concepts to sell to management, other companies or other countries.   It was the great life of an economic geologist selling her ideas. 

Now I am a glass maker selling my ideas in the form of art.  I work with molten fluids and see how metal oxides (color) affect the mobility and density of the glass.  I create strata with fused pattern bars or plumes of color, like magma chambers, in hot glass to investigate behavior.   A lot of my work involves “Cross-Over” glass.  It uses kiln-formed color designs and integrates them into hot glass forms or vice-versa.  Just as in my scientific world my glass making is an integration of my life’s knowledge to my art (which hopefully will now be my economic deposits).