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After 16 weeks of consistent hot shop time in canada, a collection of pieces were assembled for a final crit. These pieces were shot, not the best of pictures, and then some were lost. Still an enjoyable collection of pieces. All in all, I would say Flemming College, located in Haliburton Ontario, provided me with a significant skills base in the short amount of time spent there.
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Spent the 07-08 school year working and practicing my glass blowing at the National School of Glass in Orrefors, Sweden. This was more of a practice in my process, focusing on consistency and speed, versus creating final products. I made a lot of progress and look forward to returning in September, 2008!
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For the most part, my current work is an exploration through color. One of the things that intrigues me most about glass is color and the millions of ways you can use it. For the most part, the glass is being used as a canvas in which I almost paint with color bar alone.
I have been working with the optic mold, using it to mesh colors together in patterns. Depending on how I prepare my color and how I twist or adjust the color in between entrances to the mold determines my result. I can make the pattern complex or simple, fluent or varying, separated or intertwined, all while creating the most complex color combinations I can.
As for the base form, I have selected a shouldered vase. After creating the base shape, I then alter it depending on how it accents the color scheme that has arisen throughout the process. I have made open and closed, funky and symmetrical. Either way, they all explore the possibilities of abstract form there are within one shape.
There are obviously a few exceptions in this gallery, some of these pieces do not match the description above. There have to be experiments here and there, or all of this can be rather boring…
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When I got home from school, I immidiatly began to try and put together a budget photo setup. After much trial and error, thanks to lack of experience and equipment, I managed to get the remainder of my pieces shot and logged. Mike Elliot, a friend of my father, was nice enough to donate his time and spiffy Nikon Digi to the project. About 500 photos later, the group of shots were selected, and now presented to you! Some are good, some are bad, it's all good. Enjoy.
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Glass is hazardous and humbling. During the creation of the medium alone, glass must be respected; the dusty elements used to create glass are deadly. When it is molten and being worked, glass demands fire and breath. When it’s cold, it must be considered; glass loses most of its glamour and beauty after it cracks and/or crashes to the floor. When I give glass that respect and consideration, as well as provide the fire and breath it demands, I can create.
Glass is demanding. Consideration of temperature, air pressure, centrifugal force, and gravity is integral to the process of creating blown glass. I can only work with or around these properties as best I can. Although you cannot achieve total control over the medium, it is possible to come close. Perfection and persistence in form requires the ability to control and shape the glass. Therein lies my drive. It is my desire, my goal, to further improve my command over molten glass and that which affects it, without losing sight of the fact that I can never have it all.
Glass is elemental. The glass’ movements are based on physical properties, but chemistry plays a huge part in the process as well. This is very apparent when it comes to working with color. Because colors are created by adding metals to the glass, using color requires knowledge of what the colors are made of and what they will do if mixed together. I truly enjoy mixing colors in ways that people would not normally attempt. My work shows what I have learned about using color and what I am trying to figure out, both displayed through the forms that intrigue me most.
Glass is life...
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