Panes, Fire and Patience: The Art of Fusing Glass with David Barnes
It's an incredibly laborious process, and doing it well requires patience and a fine-tuned sense of irony.
Workhouse Arts Center artist David Barnes spent his career at the Central Intelligence Agency, and his brain is wired for glass fusion. "I like the irony of free flowing structures, of liquid solids - anything that has a play of contrast," Barnes recently told Patch. "I find pleasure in the journey that the glass goes through, and for people to be able to look at a piece and say to me, 'Wow. How in the hell did you do that?'" You'll ask that question more than once after looking at some of Barnes' work. Here's how it's done: Take a sheet of glass and place more glass on top of it, put the sheet in a kiln at 1,450 degrees, take it out and then put more glass on top of it, put it back in the kiln and repeat until you're happy with the …
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