Delicate glass threads, like brushstrokes of paint, float in the center of a field of marigold, vanilla and cobalt blue hand-pulled glass murrine.
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. The gradient of murrine as it moves around the bowl reveals a chronology of the glass cane as it emerged from the crucible.
Fused, cold worked and slumped.