Vortex Series

Dimensions: 19 x 18 x 14”

Blown and hot-sculpted Chalcedony glass. After spending many years melting an ancient Italian glass formula famously known as Chalcedony, this formula has a complicated timing process that can produce a myriad of color reactions and layered effects through precise heating and cooling.

This handblown glass vessel rests within a spiraling amber vortex. The large, flattened form with a mysterious window appears to be collapsing but suspended in time. The striated Chalcedony colors reflect earthy rainbow hues of blue, amber, yellow, and purple.

As part of the Vortex Series, this glass form evokes abstract themes of time and movement, like a contorted twist in the fabric of space-time. Hot glass is shaped through timing and gravity, and here a vortex-like motion wraps around the vessel, with gravity influencing its flow much like ocean currents moving objects along curved paths through water.

*This piece was selected by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship out of Geneva to exhibit in the Homo Faber 2026 Biennial: An Island of Light. It is currently still available for sale, and will be returning in November.

-Photos show 2 sides of the same piece