Watching the workers make the glass was itself a kind of artistry. Uroboros specialized in making Tiffany reproduction glasses for stained glass artists (in addition to their products formulated for blown and kiln-formed glass, which as what I was working with.) On a Tiffany Glass production day, slightly-smaller ladles would be pulled out and several furnaces of color heated to a molten state.
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In a cozy studio inside the factory floor, I worked on my own series of work, often wandering out to view the factory workers lifting heavy ladles of very hot molten glass onto giant presses. I was lucky enough to be one of the last Artists in Residence at Uroboros Glass in Portland, Oregon before they closed. The giant landscapes and nature scenes he created from his altered glass seem to shimmer with depth and light. A wrinkled white sheet might make the perfect ruffled flower petal, while a green and blue swirled piece would speak of distant mountains. He would select individual pieces of glass for each component of his visions. The glass sheets he produced were perfectly imperfect different colors of glass were swirled together at their molten state and pressed, folded, and stamped to create various textures for him to pull from. He had access to his family’s glassblowing and manufacturing studio and eventually used it to develop specially-made sheet glass to give his nature-inspired designs a great depth.
(In fact, here in the United States, Art Nouveau is often known as “Tiffany Style.”) Tiffany was a pioneer in the glass world as well as being a brilliant designer. As the Art Nouveau style spread to the United States, it became defined by the work of a designer named Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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