Ooze is a mixed media including glass and steel. The large steel pipe and its accompanying components are found objects that came from the boilers at Tulane. The glass component is my first sand-cast piece; the glass is the imprint of a salad bowl and my fingers. After the piece came out of the sand, it was sandblasted, then fire-polished. As one of my large-scale works, it was very important that it be easy to transport. For me, this meant that the glass component needed to be able to come on and off easily. To accomplish this, I cut a piece of pipe that could be inserted into the larger one, then I drilled 3 holes through both of them so they would line up, and taped the holes on the inner pipe. The glass was then glued to the smaller pipe; the result is that the glass can be removed with a screwdriver and three screws. For me, this peice served as a proof of concept that I could design and build at a larger scale and while keeping the peice manageable and transportable. Its inspiration comes from the aging infrastructure of New Orleans, where seeing a strange substance oozing from a pipe may not come as that much of a surprise.