A kind of pretty I like.

Morphogenesis, originally uploaded by Richard Sweeney.

While I am on the subject of card board, Richard Sweeney's work is worth an explore

This is going up on my wall in the workshop. Not only is it a fantastic formation of rock, it is also from my favourite spot in the world, Flock Hill, Southern Alps, NZ. Only an hour away from home and I can't go often enough.

Back from six weeks of indulgence in food, friends, family and art and design.

Really inspiring was the playful form constructions of concrete and clay at Esben Klemann's show at Bornholms Kunstmuseum.

Glass is glass is mostly sand..

I never leave the beach without photos

Sand can do so many patterns and shapes

And I have had a lot of use out of just plain sand in the workshop
casting in it, blowing hot glass into it*, modelling shapes in it..


*another post, another day

these are halves of plaster moulds before I close them up
and fill them with crushed glass. I love some of the forms hiding inside.
I would like to make glass in the shape of the actual plaster mould,
the negative form of what I model with my hands.
It will take a lot of reverse process and some silicon I think.

One of my favourite books is by Haruki Murakami
It made me start working on something like this





but I haven't been able to cast this type of shape
without it cracking. I guess there is a lot of tension with the corners.
I have to try a trick, mixing paper pulp in the plaster/silica mould.
That should make the mould more flexible and maybe leave room for the glass
to contract in the annealing?

I want to use this spotted look again and again
and I am working on smaller things with a hint of use





in two days my kiln will be cooled down and ready to open
for some more spotted tests in a different shape to come out..

It's all about the setting-up exercises