Fused Glass

Experiments from a short glass fusing workshop the other week.  Not photographed amazingly.

Pitt Rivers project

Photos from the making of my model for the exhibition project at Brookes for the Pitt  Rivers museum in Oxford.  The title is 'Space and Time'.  I was inspired by the compasses and sundials in the museum and the museum of the history of science, so decided to do a piece about  ancient Chinese compasses.  This wooden fish will be the float for a magnetised needle that will be placed in the jar above.  Because it's magnetised, the needle will make the fish point south in the water.  On the outside of the jar are illustrations, two are signs of the zodiac, and all are linked to star constellations.  Each represents a point of the compass according to the Chinese.  It is a very basic, early form of navigation discovered by the Chinese 2000 BC, originally used to align houses, graves and crops to Feng Shui principles.  When it's finished, the bottle/jar will hang from a chain so it can be worn around the neck.

Photographic series from Oxford Botanic Gardens

A series of photographs taken during my week long project of fine art.  We were given a spot on the map of  Oxford to go to and do a project on, luckily mine landed on the Botanic Gardens which turned out to be really interesting.  Although inside the vast and drippy greenhouses was fascinating and beautiful, I found I was far more gripped by the way the plants inside pushed and pressed against the clouded glass and the shapes and patterns this created.