Sydney Cash talks about why glass interests him. Oral history interview with Sydney Cash, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:43.

Sydney Cash: Well, the fact that I could actually—heated up this flat solid thing and all of a sudden they became like cheese in a toaster oven, wow, that was cool. That it was malleable. And I had some interesting relationship to glass, to mirror primarily. The only time I can ever remember being angry as a kid, I was maybe 8 years old. I came home from school—we lived on the second floor of a two-family flat—I knock on the door to get—I was there to get, to eat lunch. My mother wasn’t there, the door is locked and, ‘What? Where is she? I’m hungry,’ you know. And I bang on the door and I’m so angry and right across from the door is a big closet with a door that has a full length mirror. And I take that door and I slam it as hard as I can and the whole mirror shatters. And I’m a little shocked by that, and I kind of leave, and then I go in the backyard, my mother’s hanging out the clothes. She had forgotten that I was going to be there and what time it was. And so I really like the fact that I had a relationship of being angry with—and breaking mirror. And the other thing is to do with mirror around that age. I had a big mirror in my room that was like a boat steering wheel, and I would take it outside and I would shine it down the block in people’s houses, at cars—it was powerful, and it was fun. I could make that image of the sunshine go a thousand feet. It was wild.