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Arrow to the Sun
$2,300.00
This very stunning yellow and orange vase features black and soft green that is highlighted with carving, making the perfect statement.
Arrow to the Sun is another piece like The Stonecutter that’s inspired by the collage illustrations in children’s books by Gerald McDermott. I read these books in the 70s and I’m getting back in touch with them as I read them to my daughter now. Arrow to the Sun, the book, is a Native American folk tale about a boy who has no father and discovers upon traveling to the sun that his father is actually the Sun Lord. He returns to earth and spreads the spirit of the Sun among men. The bold black stripe shows his journey to the sun after being transformed into an arrow. The field of red and orange represents his bringing the spirit of the sun back to earth. This piece also has a unique almost hexagonal kind of that’s in also inspired by the illustrations in this book.
This very stunning yellow and orange vase features black and soft green that is highlighted with carving, making the perfect statement.
Arrow to the Sun is another piece like The Stonecutter that’s inspired by the collage illustrations in children’s books by Gerald McDermott. I read these books in the 70s and I’m getting back in touch with them as I read them to my daughter now. Arrow to the Sun, the book, is a Native American folk tale about a boy who has no father and discovers upon traveling to the sun that his father is actually the Sun Lord. He returns to earth and spreads the spirit of the Sun among men. The bold black stripe shows his journey to the sun after being transformed into an arrow. The field of red and orange represents his bringing the spirit of the sun back to earth. This piece also has a unique almost hexagonal kind of that’s in also inspired by the illustrations in this book.
×Mosaic: Building the mosaic is the starting point of the glassblowing process and the culmination of a tremendous amount of work and planning. Making the mosaic is the most creative part of the process, where Jeffrey decides on the colors and their placement in the finished piece, resulting in the specific color interactions. Jeffrey creates each element of the mosaic first, using various techniques to make the bands, squares, and patterns that make up the final design.
×Carving/Cold Sculpting: Carving and cold-sculpting takes place after the piece is completely cooled from the glassblowing process. Jeffrey looks for ways to accentuate and distort the color interactions. He uses all manner of grinding and polishing tools to achieve the different patterns and textures.
×Glassblowing Process: The traditional glassblowing process is the interpretive phase of creating Jeffrey’s work. The mosaic is sculpted while hot onto the end of the blowpipe, and from there he proceeds with traditional glassblowing methods to form the piece into an egg, bowl, vase or other kind of sculpture.
