Decouverte : Melissa SCHMIDT – glass bubbles

Melissa Schmidt – will exhibit at the Smithsonian Craft show 2011

« The use of glass bubbles as a repetitious element drives the conceptual content of my work. The jewelry I create challenges perceptions of what glass can and can’t do. It appears fragile, but is surprisingly strong. The bubbles have movement and take on a sculptural form. Lamp-worked and annealed borosilicate glass bubbles with powdered colored glass, frit glass, silver nitrate, slide film, paper images, glass-texturizing and molding techniques.« 

Melissa Schmidt- « Super Nova » necklace – all glass bubbles coated in the inside w/ silver nitrate to give the mercury effect

Melissa Schmidt-« Tree Terrarium » – 13 crystal clear lampworked glass bubbles each containing a piece of paper w/ a tree pictured

Melissa Schmidt-« Bird watching » necklace – borosilicate glass bubbles

Melissa Schmidt-« White Hot » necklace

Melissa Schmidt-« wedding fleurs » necklace

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