Infusing Beauty Into Ready-Made Glass Forms

Using bottles and jars, “container glass,” as ingredients provides me with an almost limitless source of raw material. At first, it was a love with particular shapes but I learned to appreciate the different shapes which are readily available.

Using this source is my contribution to reusing consumer goods and, perhaps, to make the end-user re-evaluate their relationship to the concept of “throwing away” and thoughtlessly discarding materials, which embody a lot of energy, ingenuity, and labor.

Glass used to be magical. Alchemy. It has since become a large part of “garbage” which is discarded all over our planet each day.

By using industrial bottles and jars as ready-made forms on which to engrave, I am sure to never run out of raw material. I would, perhaps, compare such glass to industrially produced drawing paper.

This allows me to be spontaneous in my work. It allows me to draw and sketch directly without design or layout. Just the lathe, the glass form, and me.

Every bottle and jar becomes a unique creation, a drawing, a sketch, a spontaneous creation.