Working with glass is a little challenging since I fell thorough a cold frame roof window a long time ago. The noise of it breaking and cutting it is a challenge. Glass can be so beautiful whether coloured or not. Working with it is an eye opener, there’s so much to learn. Exploring things I inherited from my mother I based my design on her hat band.
After firing things get interesting. I particularly like the RH side version even though the glass pieces were not a good fit and have split. It looks interesting. Working with glass is something to explore further another time. Photographing glass pieces creates interesting abstract images.
By the time of the last workshop I was able to cut glass. Here am fusing glass to see what would happen.
The last of the workshops. Something to come back to. Fusing these pieces didn’t work work well this time but could be progressed sometime in the future. Serendipity is great but more knowledge might give an element of control. Glass is a hard substance, it can be exceedingly beautiful – look at Dale Chihuly’s glass in Kew Gardens, but it is not a substance that will help me with the exploration of my mother’s life. I need something softer in my hands to ponder over.
Sue makes marks 