Mankind has been  working with glass for nearly 5000 years...shaping and molding it, blowing it, coloring  and etching it... from the beginning we have all been delighted with its clearness, depth  of color,  it's  willingness to changed or manipulated. These unique characteristics have allowed glass to be the chosen material of so many artists over the ages.

 It is amazing how we can so seemingly control this  material to do virtually anything we as artists desire...but it can be surprisingly capricious when we try to dominate it...it can be fragile, shattering at the most delicate touch, sometimes it can be  too hard, or too soft. Glass can stop the assault of a golf ball sticking it mid-flight, then crumble when gently set on its an edge. It is these  contradictions that I find glass so intriguing to work with.  I have learned that etching and carving glass requires a unique partnership between the artist and this wonderful material ...glass has a mind of its own, it won't be dominated ...it demands that the artist understand and respect it... when he does, the glass is transformed into an object of beauty.

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