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<\/p>\nMostly in fused glass I’m doing abstracts, but\u00a0the shape of a random piece of\u00a0clear glass suggested to me this caterpillar climbing over an obstacle.<\/p>\n
Does it even look like a caterpillar? Does it suggest an obstacle? Does it matter?<\/p>\n
Sometimes from the pile of glass pieces, a figure jumps out at me. Like this one:<\/p>\n
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I hope you can tell it’s a figure, anyhow.<\/p>\n
My eyes have been filled with the colors of spring, and so flowers bloomed in the sun:<\/p>\n
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Maybe they’ll look more floral when they’ve been fired in the kiln.<\/p>\n
Then\u00a0this one I felt as a volcano:<\/p>\n
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OK, it’s a stretch.<\/p>\n
What I’m even more unsure of is whether all of these pieces are just plain dumb.<\/p>\n
In self-defense: It’s not like I’m trying to make them realistic. They’re abstractions of real things.<\/p>\n
They just seem so … unimportant.<\/p>\n
Self-defense #2: It’s all self-expression, so in a way that is always going to seem “unimportant” in the journalistic sense.<\/p>\n
Except that when I am immersed in making these little pieces, I feel completely outside myself. It doesn’t feel like self-expression. It feels like I’m expressing something that comes from inside the glass.<\/p>\n
Releasing little spirits\u00a0that want to get out. That want to jump, blossom, climb, or blow up.<\/p>\n
So I help them.<\/p>\n
I guess what’s important is that I’m learning to play again.<\/p>\n
Today’s penny is a 2014, because I have 14 new pieces ready to fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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