Ultra Violet Surfboard P08372-P00086 999 pure silver hoops

999 pure silver hoops

A simple glass vase holds a bouquet of vivid red tulips from the artist's garden

crafted in blown glass and displaying a radiant

Twelve tiny cast sterling silver figures are tossing around 24 copper beads

upside down and right side up

Ultra Violet Surfboard P08372-P00086 999 pure silver hoopsTurquoise and vanilla with a ripple of lavender, complex patterned murrine and floating threads of glass. The glass cylinders are sections individually cut from hand pulled glass cane which I create by heating glass to 1500 degrees and pulling it into rods while molten in a modern day adaptation of the 16th century techniques of the Murano glassmakers. Fused, cold worked and slumped for a shallow curve, this piece stands 1 off the wall on a round