WALTER

Knowing that I'm not one of those lucky humans whom the camera seems to 'like, I wanted to confront my own self-conscious discomfort, by preparing, if necessary, to disrobe completely -- to remove anything that could serve as a disguise.  I also wanted to include pieces my blown glass -- like me, not photogenic, but as priceless as if they were my own children.  I was drawn to the black mesh, because, as in a favorite fairy tale, it both covers and reveals  -- I could become less a person, and more like a three-dimensional graph of a person.  By the way, if there is such a thing as reincarnation, I'd like to come back as a geometric theorem.