Portfolio: Glass and Steel

Sea Waving

Fused glass with sculpted steel tree base (sold)
Sea Waving Close-up

Close-up of fused glass with sculpted steel tree base (sold)
Glass Bowls

Some newer glass pieces
Glass Can Bleed

Fused and formed glass with sculpted steel base
Glass Can Bleed

Fused and formed glass with sculpted steel base
Not a Clock

Fused glass and steel
Not a Clock (backlit)

Fused glass and steel
Glass Sculpture
Yellow Morpheus

Fused noodles and shards of glass with sculpted steel base
Yellow Morpheus

Fused noodles and shards of glass with sculpted steel base
Glass Hat

Fused glass and steel
Life in a Drop of Water

Fused noodles and shards of glass and sculpted steel base
Inside the Kiln

Just moments before closing the lid and fusing this glass into a new panel at 1500 degrees. Each noodle and strand of glass is made in another smaller kiln known as a Vitragraph. The noodles are the result of bits and shards of glass placed in a small clay flower pot. The hole in the bottom of the flower pot aligns with a hole in the bottom of the kiln. The kiln sits atop and 6 foot scaffold. After heating the glass to 1700 degress, the glass oozes out the bottom of the kiln in long noodles of molten glass. When cooled I then use those noodles in other glass creations (as seen here).
Lampfish Moonrise

Fused glass with steel base
Lampfish Moonrise

Now Alien Martini (the other way)
Direct Contrast

Fused and formed glass with sculpted steel base
Universal Universe

Fused and formed glass with sculpted steel base
Fused Glass Plates Ready to be Made into Vessels

Fused glass plates ready to be slumped over/into forms to make shallow vessels. In the upper left corner of this pic you can see the heating coils of the kiln. The paper is a silicate infused paper that will act as a resist to prevent the glass from fusing to the stainless steel bowls I use to form and shape the glass along with the heat of the kiln.
Newly Formed Glass Vessels

Newly formed fused and slumped glass shallow vessels
The Expansion of Molecules

Fused glass with sculpted steel base
The Expansion of Molecules (detail)

Fused glass close-up
The Expansion of Molecules (even more detail)

Fused glass extreme close-up
Two Lovers

Fused and formed glass with steel base
Genesis (sold)

Fused glass and steel base
Glass Nest of the Stone Thrower Bird

Fused and formed glass with copper structure
Glass Nest of the Stone Thrower Bird

Side detail
Glass Nest of the Stone Thrower Bird

Shadow detail
Slow Moving Liquid Form

Fused glass with copper structure
Slow Moving Liqid Form

Detail
Newly Formed Vessel

Newly formed fused and slumped shallow glass vessel
Newly Formed Vessel

Newly formed fused and slumped shallow glass vessel (detail)
Fused Glass Plate

In kiln, pre-slump
Fused Glass Plate Becomes a Vessel

Newly slumped fused glass plate now a shallow vessel
Glass Can Bleed

Fused glass with sculpted steel tree base
Glass Vessel

Fused and formed glass vessel
Glass Vessel (inverted)

Fused and Formed Glass Vessel (inverted)
Inverted Shallow Vessel

Fused glass vessel
Super Nova

Fused and formed glass with steel base
Super Nova

Fused and formed glass with steel base
Super Nova

Fused and formed glass with steel base
Super Nova
Super Nova
Lollipop
Lollipop
Alien Eclipse (sold)

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