Cigno

Hot formed glass encased and carved Since 1976 I created many hundreds of miniature flameworked swans based on this form.  I decided to enlarge the form and include hundreds of canes I designed and made.  The form conveys the floating feeling of a swan on a pond and speaks to my Italian heritage.

2007 Lateral Drip

A hot sculpted, encased flameworked red dahlia 4 inches These designs revisit my “Red Dahlia,” recreating dahlias in sculptural forms that push the limits of hot-forming glass in a torch. After more than thirty years of torch work, I had developed great control over hot moving glass. This drip design however poses extreme difficulty because of…

2006 Paradise Lost

Encased flamework, millefiori, flameworked human profiles. The exterior is engraved with a wave. Inspired by the tsunami in South East Asia. I began perfecting my own millefiori canes and latticino, and developed ways to use canes and latticino in my designs instead of using them as embellishment around the design. The snake was made using only millefiori…