Glass Kiln Tag : Glass Kiln "The material of glass has been a great teacher to me. It has helped me to live in the moment, forced me to cherish my mistakes, and gifted me many triumphs. It is an entity that you can never truly touch, that can bite you with a burn, but to release its creative potential, to dance with it, you must overcome your fear." Alexander Abajian is a prolific young artist untethered by convention. He integrates a variety of different elements to his own sculptures. Whether electroplating metal to glass, combining kiln castings with hand blown accents, manipulating solid pieces of color to forge vessels impregnated with intricate designs, or translating his own figurative paintings into three-dimensional sculptures, Alexander manifests an interminable drive to create. He is on the forefront of glass art, truly utilizing the material as a means of expression, free from the constraints of craft. The Ribbon Cane Canoe series was inspired by the ocean worn texture of beach glass, the ever-changing colors of the North Eastern fall season, and a desire to integrate traditional Venetian techniques w/ a whimsical contemporary twist. This design began as an experiment for folding glass like paper origami. As the exploration process continued, the material started to reveal recurring shapes, resulting in the refined boat form you see before you.
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