In 2008, April Surgent was ingesting a series of radio programs and articles on climate change as she worked on a glass engraving for a show at the Bellevue Art Museum. This piece would take her over ten months to complete and become “Into the Surface”—a fourteen-foot wide by four-foot tall collage of 100 glass panels depicting seven people in shades of black, white, and gray, within an urban environment. The images in April’s work, whether human or non-human, at first glance can appear as blurred photographs. As you stand closer, however, you can see the three-dimensional, multi-layered quality to her engravings—alive with depth and movement.