Welcome to this occasional ledger of lampworking adventures and discoveries at Blackstone Bead.
I am an artist... I love the natural world and the beautiful order of the universe. I love science, and so eventually my artistic drive led me to glass work, which is a perfect marriage of science and art. The glass working process provides a direct connection to the physics of the world we live in: to work with hot glass is to win a war of balancing the forces of gravity and surface tension, heating and cooling. Flame working is a dynamic, evolving art form awash in beautiful color and light, and I never tire of the challenges that it presents.
