“My mother was a complicated woman.” This is the opening sentence of Susan Taylor Glasgow’s artist statement. I was immediately intrigued. Taylor Glasgow is the only artist I know of who sews glass. She shapes and fuses sheets of glass the way a seamstress cuts fabric to make a garment. Then she applies imagery to the glass components – text and pictures that reflect a 1950′s sensibility – before sewing the panels together with waxed linen thread or nylon ribbon.

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