“The head entitled ‘The Child of Glass’ originates from a group of ceramic sculptures entitled The Cast of Characters made during the late 1990s. These archetypal figures included a range of troublesome personalities such as The Ghostly Lover and The Stone Mother. The Child of Glass represented an abject and fragile aspect of femininity. Once the head from this series of figures was cast into an edition of bronze, a paradox emerged, a tension between the cold strength of the metal and the fragile warmth of the fired clay. Silver, with its reactive surface and its added aura of preciousness, returned the work closer to its original intention, creating a synthesis between these material dichotomies, a representation that is at once both mysteriously transient and yet reassuringly permanent.” Christie Brown