glass treasury, volume IX no. 10, 11, 12, 13

approximate dimensions:  Ø 12 cm, height 7–10 cm

weight: 0.4–0.5kg

Sculptural glassware that explores the concept of a treasury —  the power of a container object to reflect the value of personally precious natural ingredients or material entities from the places dear to one’s heart.

While burning in a wooden mould, liquid hot glass captures tiniest details of a momentary structure, resulting into a unique shape and surface of each piece. This sculptural series is inspired by the form-making of nature and created by mastering the material and synergy of natural forces, elements of air and fire, noble materials of wood and glass.

Hand-crafted in Finland.

The wooden mould changes continuously during the glass blowing process. A sequence number is assigned to each piece, and due to the design and the technique, each object is one of a kind, and its shape, texture, dimensions, and weight differ, as if it would be grown from the earth.

Materials: glass, up-cycled alder wood.

Moulds for glassblowing are made out of up-cycled local timber, in particular of dry discarded crackled wood. The wood for the moulds is consciously selected by the artist to achieve a variety of structures.

Mould making, hot work, cold work: by the artist herself. Hot work, mouth blowing into a wooden mould: by the glass master in Helsinki.

Wood working by the artist herself. Hand-drawn shapes transformed with digital graphic tools and produced with industrial CNC machine.The shapes of the wooden lids are first hand-drawn, then fine-tuned in vector curves that are next transformed into 3D shapes and milled with a CNC machine from scrap wood material left after making glass moulds, and finally sanded and coated with organic bee wax mixed with Nordic berries. Each wooden lid is a unique pair to each unique glass piece, no shape is the same.

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