The glass works
Some glass through the ages
Some glass through the ages
Many people have asked me why glass, or how did I get my start in glass...
It all began with a PBS show on TV; I couldn't remember when it was exactly, but I do know it was well over 10 years ago and it was a documentary on Chihuly making one of his Seaforms pieces. At that point, he was already blind in his left eye and was more of a supervisor rather than a glassblower. It wasn't him that impressed me, rather it was the glassblowers that were making the piece, and the process of wielding hot treacle-like glass on a steel rod that was most fascinating.
That thought never left me. When I moved to Rochester, New York in 2000, I looked around the surrounding area to see what upstate New York had to offer. Finger Lakes wine region, cool... George Eastman House, cool... Eastman School of Music, cool... Corning... Corning? as in Corning ware, and glass? Way cool... Corning Museum of Glass? The largest glass museum in the world? Well then, I have to check this out. Surfing around their website also brought up a link to The Studio, which was where anyone, like you and me, could take classes from world-class glass artists and use the facilities.
It was a few years before time and money allowed me to explore that world of glass. I have and still am having a boatload of fun everytime I'm in Corning to visit the museum, to catch up with friends made there and to make art in the studio.
These are some of the results of my growth and I'm happy to share them with you.
Focal Plane, 2008
The Spirit of Eighty Years to Come, 2009
Autumn Patch, 2010
Vortex, 2010
