Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

A pattern of lines and dots runs through the center of cross-sections of hand-pulled glass cane, with cheerful marigold yellow and a vanilla centerpiece. The glass cylinders in this bowl 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. The gradient of murrini as it moves around the bowl reveals a chronology of the glass cane as it emerged from the crucible. Fused, cold worked, and slumped.