Jeremy Griffith & Chelsea Griffith

We utilize the historic cane and murrine-making process (colored rods and patterned cross-sections of glass) popularized by Italian glassworkers to create highly detailed blown glass panels that blur the line between fine and decorative art. During the lengthy process of stretching colored glass into stringers and then building a pattern while molten with each stringer acting as a singular pixel in each design and stretching them down yet again, we investigate the interplay between different colors, gradients and endless patterns. Each murrine is different from the next when melted and blown or kiln-formed, so every finished pattern is naturally unique and surprising.