"Ruben...and Isabel... explained how that freedom allowed them to dream up a series of gorgeously anthropomorphized perfume bottles. Ruben captured their ideas in a series of gothic, eggplant purple watercolors and presented them to instructor and mater glass artist Roger Parramore, who then created one of the bottles, complete with womanly, articulated parts and Isabel-like eyes. Another collaboration evolved more subtly. Students got ahold of Ruben's painting of the glass artists in motion-- 'They're faster than fashion models,' he marveled--and, by the final day, just about every T-shirt in Stanwood was silk-screened with his interpretation of their soft black silhouettes....For Isabel...She let the hot kilns and cooled vessels simply suggest ideas. Amid jewel-toned glass pieces in the studio she contemplated gemstones and unrefined silks. Those vague notions, she says, like glass, 'will solidify later.'"
Cassidy, L. "Throwing Ideas at Glass Houses." Seattle Metropolitan magazine. October 2009. p. 27.
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