BOOKS
"O’Connor is one of the most original ethnographers of the senses and materiality.” — Claudio Benzecry, Symbolic Interaction
“It is really a book about life, and about what might happen to life if it gets too hot.” — Tim Ingold, Glass Quarterly.
“The result is a rich and unusually intimate account of glassmaking as a physical discipline, a collective practice, and a potentially transformative mode of being in the world.” — Alpesh Kantilal Patel, H-Material-Culture
“There is no question that her in-depth focus on the glass hot shop… adds to the craft canon.” — D Wood, Craft Research
“[Fire Craft] earns its density with precision, originality, and lived authority.” — Samantha Olsen, Los Angeles Book Review
"A thoughtful, sharply observed book with real visual power."
—Jessica Fahey, Manhattan Book Review
"“Its best moments glow with the same heat it studies.”
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