Creative process in glass & video

Out in the studio as I trimmed through the bottom of a bowl, I started thinking about fused glass.  Bottomless bowls can be great glass molds.  Then I went to Writing Without Paper blog and, as usual, found inspiration in both video and glass.

Videographer Karen Rodriguez in 2009 produced a video for Corning Museum of Glass  introduces Artist-In-Residency glass sculptor Mielle Riggie.  She explains the technique of cast-glass sculpture and gives a wonderful insight into her creative process.

Mielle Riggie works with both the strength and fragility of glass to illustrate the dynamics of human emotion or conditions. In her residency at The Studio, Riggie created cast-glass sculpture amplifying elements in nature, such as leaves or roots, and recombined disparate parts in ways that exaggerated the tension and balance of humans with their surroundings.

In 2010 Riggie had an exhibition at the Winston Wachter Fine Art  in Seattle which provides some dramatic images of her sculptures. It is worth a visit. 



We do these artist interviews videos.  Karen Rodriquez's video does a great job of presenting an artist as they talk about how they work.