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Author: Glass_Masters, Contributing Editor
| How has color and technique challenged you recently?
The two most challenging things lately in color work have been learning to fade and shade by creating different densities of color from the very dense overlay colors, and color/pattern combinations for the furnace style beads I make. |
| Do you have a muse that guides you while you're at the torch?
For technique, I really do seem to have a muse. If I'm willing to try long enough, and hard enough, to the point where fatigue or concentration has put me well into the trance or flow state, some external presence will take my mind and hands and lead me where I need to go. It is actually a very calming and pleasant sensation, but it is definitely something with great wisdom that comes from outside myself. |
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| When your muse is on vacation and you are in a slump, how do you jumpstart your creativity?
I have no tolerance for repetitive work. If I am feeling a need for a jumpstart it usually turns out that I have been doing too much of the same thing over and over, or possibly just one of the minor mental or emotional downturns that seem to be a natural part of the ebb and flow of life. The best thing for me to do is to stop, and just walk away from what I am doing for a while. Sometimes for days if that is what it takes. I do not go back until I feel a strong urge to return for the pleasure of it, and never because of guilt or deadlines. |
| What does your studio space mean to you and how is it laid out?
It is really a place of comfort. Something akin to your favorite stuffed animal, or perhaps a garden you really like. The shop layout was a question of fitting what needed to be done into the space available. This is not such a bad thing though. Somewhere in the future I may want to travel while doing glass again, so, I am always setting things up with an eye to compactness and portability. My studio space is set up along one side of a garage and the work flows down benches from the hot phases to the cold phases, like cutting, grinding, and polishing. A small furnace shop is in the works and should be completed sometime this year. |
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