Lavender Glass Cylinder url-fumiko-nagano Both soft and sharp

Both soft and sharp

The fine traces left behind in the hand-building process resemble the brushstrokes of landscape painting

Handmade using traditional smithing techniques

an extension of my body

Elegant porcelain tableware by Sue Paraskeva

Lavender Glass Cylinder url-fumiko-nagano Both soft and sharpFor these glass vessels texture becomes the memory of process. They begin as drawings exploring emotion through mark making gesture and form. As the work transitions from drawing to clay moulds and then to glass a corrosion of the original occurs. The viewer is invited to touch to remember. To explore the surface landscape the glass recorded to gaze into and beyond the vessels walls absorb the colours and find the memory. Edmond Byrne on this piece