We'll Never Be Royals

Description

Lucious curls of yellow glass pillow on a background of bright blues complemented by hand-pulled murrine and a scattering of crisp black threads of glass. Savor the depth as you observe the delicate shadows cast by the thin wafers of floating blue circles on transparent yellow glass. As you walk by, subtle iridescence in the creamy quadrants shifts and shines. The curls of yellow glass were pulled from the bottom of a 1600° kiln looped swiftly with two pairs of tweezers into a towering nest in the seconds before the glass cooled and stiffened, then placed into a hot kiln to gracefully sink into a swirling pancake before being fired onto the blue background glass. The glass cylinders in this bowl are sections individually cut from hand-pulled glass cane which I create by heating glass to 1500 degrees and pulling it into rods while molten in a modern-day adaptation of the 16th century techniques of the Murano glassmakers. Hundreds of them are placed by hand onto a ceramic surface standing together in a tight formation and heated until they soften and puddle together to form a slab. Fused, cold worked and slumped.