I have been really going out of my own boundaries with my glass, lately, and it is hard. Things don’t look so good. And I am eager for new ideas to look good.
When someone posts something new in an online gallery, etc., it gives the illusion that BAM, they just came out of nowhere and made this really cool thing. In most cases, there’s a lot of time you don’t see, you didn’t know they were working on something new.
So I am trying to do that, while not getting annoyed when I open the kiln and things don’t look as cool as I had hoped. It’s nice then to fall back and make something that I know looks nice, to regain confidence in my abilities and refresh and recharge to tackle the new direction again.
Here is a bead that does both…it follows my Pagoda series that I already have made severa beads with (one is in the current issue of Bead Unique, even….yet it is different. A little more complexity in the sections. And the electroforming takes longer, as I don’t connect all the sections of it in the back like usual. This adds another day or two to the overall process, but I think it might be worth it.
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