“Calving” is one of three sets in a series of cups representing glacial melt. According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, calving is “a process by which ice breaks off a glacier’s terminus.” This piece engages time as a medium in addition to clay. Unfired porcelain cups are placed into vases with two inches of water each day. Immediately, flecks of porcelain appear to “calve” or jump off from the surface of the cup and “snow” down to rest on the bottom of the vase. Each cup’s disintegration is unique and happens at its own rate, normally taking between two and five hours. On the wall to the side of the shelf with these cups disintegrating is an iPad with a macro film of this process taking place. Viewers are able to scroll through this short film at any pace they want and hence slow down or speed up this “calving” of a cup. Through this piece, viewers can experience in a familiar medium the enormity of what is taking place in real-time to the glaciers of the world.