Cornucopia • 2025
Series of 3 Stained glasses, Reclaimed and Victorian stained glass, lead, each approx. 40 × 30 cm
Cornucopia is a series of stained glass works exploring abundance through fragments and ritual symbols. Reworking the traditional cornucopia form, each piece becomes an offering—part memory, part relic—shaped by light, loss, and time.
Drawing on the Corn Spirit series, Cornucopia continues Porré’s investigation into harvest folklore, ceremonial forms, and the persistence of myth. This trio of stained glass works explores abundance through ritual, fragmentation, and offering. Drawing from the symbolic horn of plenty, each piece reimagines the cornucopia as a form shaped by what has been given, broken, and remembered — fragments of our collective memory.
The glass is arranged in fractured geometries, combining stained glass with leaded joins that emphasize both connection and disruption. At the center of each work is a floral or foliate motif—echoes of ornament from past sacred spaces—offered like relics or seeds. Light becomes a central medium, activating each composition and casting ephemeral shadows that shift with time and perspective. Symbols of ancient harvest folklore—curved horn, seed, sheaf—emerge warped, as if seen through dreams or omens.
Cornucopia asks what we carry forward from these old traditions—what is inherited, what is distorted, and what continues to speak, even in pieces.
