Marijke & Joop Berendsen

Glass Sculpture - Floating yet Connected

2024

Hand-crafted Glassfusing Glass Artwork Glass Sculpture This unique glass artwork, model "Connected", is a hand-crafted piece of colored glass using the fusion process. The design fe...

This beautiful handmade glass sculpture, crafted with colored glass pieces forming a beautiful butterfly combines aesthetic beauty with profound symbolic meaning of transformation, l...

Sailing into Space, Original Glass Sculpture, 2020 32″ × 19″ × 2″, 40 lbs Fused Glass and Stainless Steel Wall mounted Artist Commentary: I was working with some metal fabricators w...

'Maina' is a contemporary abstract cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from his Internal Space series. It features painterly brushstroke formations in glass called trails. Trails are created through rolling molten glass into various forms and shapes. They are then placed within clear glass and fused into one large piece through kiln casting. This technique creates a layered, suspended, and vibrant three-dimensional space within. About the Internal Space Series: David’s experiments with sheet glass and fusing led him to try to make the glass thicker to see more interior space. It was during this time a professor pointed out that he was working with a metaphor, for which the internal space of the glass was the equivalent to the internal life of the mind. This became his operating mantra but also forced him to come to terms with the casting of thick sections. “Creating those internal spaces came with some problems. Other than telescope mirrors, I did not know that anyone annealed glass in a kiln for more than a day or two. When pieces cracked after five...