Glittery green undulating murrine piers jut out into turquoise Caribbean waters populated with graphical pebbly blocks. Alternately, a cityscape of green skyscrapers reaches into a sky full of clocklike clouds. It all depends on your point of view.
The murrine elements are sections individually cut from hand-pulled glass cane, which the artist creates by heating glass to 1500°F and pulling it into rods while molten in a modern-day adaptation of the 16th-century techniques of the Murano glassmakers. The murrine are melted together into a block exposing the cross-sections, which is then sliced up to expose the undulating insides of the cross-sections. The final work of art is the result of five firings.
Fused, cold worked, and slumped.
- Subject Matter: Water
- Collections: Beach