Hawaii, Mezuzah, and a Cat

some more glass art in response to the underwhelming response

Art • August 2014 • Views: 2,353

Here’s some more of my kilnformed glass pieces. If you hate this, blame Charles for making it so easy to create a page and post images to it.

Mauna Kea as seen from the East Rift Zone

A representational piece, capturing a view of Mauna Kea seen from offshore of the Big Island, near Kilauea’s active lava flow. Approximately 10 x 12 inches.

Mezuzah cover

A mezuzah cover (Jewish ritual object). The Hebrew letter (shin) is made from hand-pulled stringers.

A cat, a kiln

And this is Streak, my one-eyed Russian Blue, enjoying the radiant heat from the small kiln.

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4 comments

klys Aug 13, 2014 12:39:29am

I admit to curiosity about the process you’re using - I’ve done a little bit of art glass work (fusing and some very supervised glassblowing and lampworking) myself and then have a lot of experience with some very technical glasses, but that’s a very different category of things.

I really like the Mauna Kea piece; I am looking forward to getting to see the Big Island and the volcanoes (professional interest! to the extent that I have those these days) but I haven’t yet.

sffilk Aug 13, 2014 7:09:18am

Very nice mezuzah cover.

BadExampleMan Aug 13, 2014 11:00:35am

re: #1 klys

It’s just straightforward fusing and slumping. A typical piece takes multiple firing cycles, with some elements created separately and then fused together in an iterative process.

For example, the Mauna Kea piece: the moon and the turtle are beads made individually, as is the frit lace that makes up the lava flow. the various flat elements - sea, land, sky, and mountain - were fused together in stages along with some shading provided by frit powder and glassline paint, and then the lace and beads were added in a final firing cycle.

klys Aug 13, 2014 11:03:06am

re: #3 BadExampleMan

It’s just straightforward fusing and slumping. A typical piece takes multiple firing cycles, with some elements created separately and then fused together in an iterative process.

For example, the Mauna Kea piece: the moon and the turtle are beads made individually, as is the frit lace that makes up the lava flow. the various flat elements - sea, land, sky, and mountain - were fused together in stages along with some shading provided by frit powder and glassline paint, and then the lace and beads were added in a final firing cycle.

It’s very cool to see.

Glass is such an amazingly fun substance.

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