Description
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.
