MARJORIE BURR
Making glass beads is about control and lack of control , about gravity and heat , about color and form, about intensity, about fast and slow, thinking and doing, about fluid and frozen. And unique to glass work is the solitude of beadmaking. I love it all.
Except for modern torches and tanks, I use all the same process of beadmakers of long ago. In fact, I use glass rods imported from Murano, Italy, the European center of glasswork, ancient and modern. A bead begins with the hole; molten glass is wound around a mandrel to form the base bead. Additional colored hot glass in varieties of dots and lines that are heated and manipulated to form the infinite patterns and images on my miniature art objects.
Making glass beads is about control and lack of control , about gravity and heat , about color and form, about intensity, about fast and slow, thinking and doing, about fluid and frozen. And unique to glass work is the solitude of beadmaking. I love it all.
Except for modern torches and tanks, I use all the same process of beadmakers of long ago. In fact, I use glass rods imported from Murano, Italy, the European center of glasswork, ancient and modern. A bead begins with the hole; molten glass is wound around a mandrel to form the base bead. Additional colored hot glass in varieties of dots and lines that are heated and manipulated to form the infinite patterns and images on my miniature art objects.
