#GLASSBLOWING

[batwynn]

I just saw someone refer to an artist as a ‘content provider’ and I’m done. I’m out. Where’s the fucking time machine?

[high-quality-tiktoks]

🧡😮

[imaginebetterfutures]

My latest sculpture is done! I blew the glass myself, and made ferrofluid, and put this whole thing together. The little wooden stones have magnets in them to manipulate the ferrofluid.

Of course all I can see are the bits that I wanted to be different, but I'm trying to be proud of what I made. This was my first time ever blowing glass, and my first time making ferrofluid from scratch. Getting the holes to actually be the right size for the irregularly sized glass objects was SO HARD.

It's probably best seen in action:

[gottastim]

studio_comploj on ig

[unityrain24]

shoutout to these epic lesser-appreciated forms of art:

bookbinding

crochet doll making

ooak doll customizing (from previously existing doll)

ooak dolls (from scratch)

metalworking/forging

glass blowing (large scale)

the glassworking/blowing that's the smaller scale where you can do it in just a regular room idk what it's called

intricate terrarium/aquaterium making where it's almost like a miniature

miniature/bigature making

whjaksnaisodabhs so cool guys keep up the good work

[yarrowglass]

Tiny borosilicate Chao!

Approx. 1" tall each

[sillycatglassblower]

Veilleuse Galaxie ✨

Galaxy ✨

[pastej]

He’s just a lil guy 🦇✨

[staffordartglass]

inScaPe GeOde!

[theglassygardener]

Do you think Enoch and the people of Pottsfield will welcome my little glass pumpkins?

[archivalanvil]

Went glassblowing again and made a cup, along with this mushroom when we had a bit of left over time

[racefortheironthrone]

I don’t suppose you know if any glass blowers guilds in 1400s - 1600s you could refer me to for research, or glass makers in general, or which broader guilds their craft may be Included in. Trying to do some research after seeing a generational glass blower. Thank you!

I would recommend you focus your research on the glassblowers of Murano in Venice. The Republic of Venice established a Glassmakers Guild in the 13th century, and because of the Guild's importance to the Venetian economy, enacted a number of laws to promote their interests.

Thus the Serene Republic banned the import of foreign glass or the employment of foreign glassworkers, set aside the island of Murano for the industry, encouraged glassblowers to marry into elite families, and made it illegal for glassblowers to emigrate.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

OK, I'm not gonna respond directly to 1.5 year old tags on one of my posts with less than 100 notes, but it's been eating at me ever since. Is Deborah Czeresko, winner of season 1 of Blown Away on Netflix, a terf?

I can see why, after watching the show, you would come to that to conclusion. Lucky for you, I went down a deep internet wormhole tonight.

Evidence Deborah's a TERF:

TERF bangs and lots of eggs as female symbolism, both in a domesticity way and a bioessentialist way.

Doesn't look good BUT:

Evidence Deborah's not a TERF:

They/them pronouns and trans flag in official Instagram bio.

Describes themselves as queer on their homepage (but uses she her pronouns on it) and says their art is about queer issues.

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Makes these adorable glass trans eggs and donates part of the profits to lgbtq Healthcare.

This quote from a NYTIMES profile:

Glass “is nonbinary on a molecular level because it is a super cooled liquid that has the physical properties of both a liquid and solid,” Czeresko. “Even when cooled and solid, the molecules are constantly moving, similarly to a liquid. As a compound, it exists in multiple states.”

Final verdict: not a TERF.

Thank God, i can rest easy now.

[imaginebetterfutures]

I made another sculpture! This one is kind of hard to document well, because I don't have access to a super clean white gallery space so apologies that the images aren't amazing. But I think it's a cool piece.

WICK is, in some ways, a clock. Slowly, invisibly, the water travels through the cotton fiber rope out of the glass vessel and down. Eventually, when it touches the paper, it will react with the small pile of powdered dye that's there, and create an image.

Here's what it looks like when that happens (sped up 12x):

I wanted to make something that engaged with ideas of motion, stillness and scale. At first glance, the piece is static. But what you cannot see with the naked eye is that there is quite a lot of motion happening — water being pulled, molecule by molecule, up and through the wick. It's simply happening at a scale that we can't easily see or engage with.

In a way, Wick is a time piece. Each image created is a portrait of a day — many hours of seeming stillness suddenly made visible on the page. The water travels through the wick at a set rate (about .1 inch per minute) and so you could conceivably use it as a stopwatch, or a timer. And yet, doing so seems absurd, because we want things to be precise, visible and immediate. Wick is none of those things.

In our class critique, one of my fellow students called the piece "frustrating," which I actually really appreciate, because to me that is one way to describe trying to wrap your mind around time and scale and motion — it forces us to be a little bit uncomfortable. To wait, and to look closely, and to wonder whether or not the scale and speed we operate at is the only one worth trying.

[keepingitneutral]

‘Refugio Impluvium,’  ‘Los Rios’ region, Chile,

SAA Arquitectura + Territorio

[sensitiveaangel]

polypore candelabra by me.

a tree trunk with candle-supporting mushrooms growing out of it.

made of borosilicate glass at the torch. 2024.