Tim Tate is the co-founder of the Washington Glass School located in Mt. Ranier, MD, where he creates electronic reliquaries – hybrid works which combine cast glass, found objects and videos. His newest series tackles 21st c. Sideshows, and features an eco-mutant, a woman with two left feet, and a yoga strongman.

In A Man with No Heart (But Still with a Burning Desire) the top finial shows a cast glass hand holding a cast glass human heart. Inside the vitrine is a sideshow poster and people standing before a man holding a door, which opens into his chest, showing a video of a flickering flame; In Man with a Devil on his Back the top finial has a devil sitting atop a man’s head. Inside the globe a man is plagued by a devil who is trying to distract him, while the video shows a man continually trying to catch the devil looking over his shoulder. Tim Tate creates cultural specimens entombed in glass, preserving a history which is both amusing yet foreboding.