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First Snow... In Glass

9/5/2015

 
I met a great woman at the Utah Arts Festival back in June. Her friends call her "Turtle" (when I know her better, I will ask why). She is definitely worthy of a unique name. She, (desert girl that she is) oddly, is attracted to art that depicts snowy scenes and she suggested I might want to give it a try. So, for Turtle, I ventured forth to the studio and dragged out a big jar of ground up white glass. Here's the piece still in the kiln -
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And below is the finished piece, photographed with a little light behind it. It was just a quick shot, leaning up against an acrylic stand. It will be mounted on its panel in the next couple days.

It's my first snow piece ever and it posed some interesting challenges, being so pale in the ground, sky  and water areas. I called it "First Snow" because, well, you know. I'm happy with the water & rock effects & I'm eager to do more! I don't know if you can see it in the photo, but there are many tiny white tree trunks way in the background. My work is difficult to photograph - your eye can perceive all the tiny distances between glass layers, but the camera lens, not so much. I guess we just have superior equipment.
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    Steph Mader is a full-time glass artist living on Whidbey Island in Washington State.

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