All of my work is based on sparking life-long fascination with our planet. Phase was a mineral specimen that entranced me, visible evidence of repeated starts-and-stops in growth, caused by changes in the level of water the void in which the crystal formed, each capturing a pause in the progression towards the final termination of the quartz crystal. Transition is a Persied meteor in its last fractions of a moment of existence, as it transitions to light and heat courtesy of the first friction it has encountered after billions of years of orbit. The illuminated path of an airplane’s travel hints at a simultaneous, although exaggerated, human time-scale.