OK, it is so freezing out that the snow has sparkle and crunch all at once, always a sign of the serious cold...so I suppose this partially explains why glassblowing surfaced in my brain as muse for a day today...the sheer warmth, an understatement, of it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassblowing
I learned to blow glass in a very low-tech way, in the sixth grade, where we heated up small test tubes with bunsen burners and made small globes on the ends of the tubes...a bit hair-raising, a dangerous bit of geek fun.
...but since then I have always been fascinated with what seems like a precarious situation in which there is the potential to inhale molten glass...but the wonderful result draws me close, I have a real thing for glass art, provided that it is not cheesy-awful. There are way too many overstated glass fish in this world. Dale Chihuly's work speaks to me somehow, especially some of his chaotic underwater-seeming chandeliers...check it out and enjoy...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Chihuly
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