i've spent the last year and a half blowing out of the Edgefield shop, enjoying the company of friends while learning so much. i have been trying to make enough production to earn a living, but balance it with enough playing with the glass to keep my heart happy. the result is exciting!
i have, through production, mastered many forms, and found a new level of understanding of the glass that feels like how i feel every morning i wake up next to my wife.
through playing, i have developed some interesting things that may turn out to be fantastic elements to my future work.
today i am very excited to go pick up yesterday's pieces because some of those pieces are my first attempts at graal blanks. and Peter gave me some old Paradise Paints he found in some tucked away box of his, so between traditional carving techniques and painting the glass, i am invigorated and enthusiastic about the possibilities! it feels like an "aha!" moment. finally i see a way for me to tell stories in the glass! if i had stepped out of my own head years ago i would have discovered these possibilities, but then it wouldn't have been the perfect moment...
as with any present work, at any point in time, the past culminates to produce a piece not possible a year before that. i feel at the edge of a long gestation period, and can't wait to bring life to the many ideas forming in my head, and to see where it goes from here.
i am finally on the right road, i feel. and i am cornily skipping down it.
