BUILDING SKYWARD - Blown Glass & Metal Sculpture
BUILDING SKYWARD is tiered mold blown glass sculpture. This statuesque tower, the fifth and final of my SKYWARD series, is a mashup reference of two vastly different architectural eras - elaborate decorative stone on stone edifices, set into a modernist curtain wall superstructure.
Looks great from every angle!
Created with one-of-a-kind textural and faceted mold blown glass components.
A metal structure frames the glass components and allows light to bounce through the array.
Metal structure is anodized aluminum with stainless steel posts.
Dimensions: 34 x 11 x 3 inches (base dimensions 2 x 13 x 6 inches)
Shipping within continental United States is included.
BUILDING SKYWARD is tiered mold blown glass sculpture. This statuesque tower, the fifth and final of my SKYWARD series, is a mashup reference of two vastly different architectural eras - elaborate decorative stone on stone edifices, set into a modernist curtain wall superstructure.
Looks great from every angle!
Created with one-of-a-kind textural and faceted mold blown glass components.
A metal structure frames the glass components and allows light to bounce through the array.
Metal structure is anodized aluminum with stainless steel posts.
Dimensions: 34 x 11 x 3 inches (base dimensions 2 x 13 x 6 inches)
Shipping within continental United States is included.
BUILDING SKYWARD is tiered mold blown glass sculpture. This statuesque tower, the fifth and final of my SKYWARD series, is a mashup reference of two vastly different architectural eras - elaborate decorative stone on stone edifices, set into a modernist curtain wall superstructure.
Looks great from every angle!
Created with one-of-a-kind textural and faceted mold blown glass components.
A metal structure frames the glass components and allows light to bounce through the array.
Metal structure is anodized aluminum with stainless steel posts.
Dimensions: 34 x 11 x 3 inches (base dimensions 2 x 13 x 6 inches)
Shipping within continental United States is included.
MICHAEL MIKULA - Glass Artist
For more than two decades Michael has explored a process using multi-part graphite molds as a tool for introducing imagery into blown glass. He calls the resulting body of artwork, which highlights the visual effects of positive and negative form, “Architechtonic Blown Glass”.
Michael composes graphite molds from a large and growing library of interchangeable hand cut components, and no two mold compositions are ever alike. He starts each blown form by capping his blow pipe with colored glass. Michael then gathers successively thicker layers of molten clear glass from the furnace until he has enough to fill the mold. Standing above the mold, Michael drops the glass, still attached to the blow pipe, into the mold and puffs more air through the blow pipe into the molten glass. He then quickly removes the hardening glass form from the pipe, placing it into the annealing oven for a timed cooling process. Once cooled, the resulting deeply dimensional blown forms are cut open, faceted and polished. The individual glass art elements are thoughtfully recomposed within an integral metal armature of anodized aluminum and stainless steel.
"Think of a Louise Nevelson sculpture to imagine what a mold looks like as molten glass fills the form - taking it's shape in reverse. My use of color is purposefully understated to focus attention on form and how the imagery and light is captured and reflected through the glass. My goal is that each piece be a well designed and crafted object with integrity and lasting value".