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I've never seriously entertained the physical properties of glass as art to be so familiar with its limitations. I'm sure there are certain ones, as with any media. I'm always impressed with people who do art with fragile materials - glass, ceramics, stone, wood - because that would intimidate me too much. To work with these material,s you can't just be an artist, but an artisan as well, to have a very rich understanding of the nature of the material you use. Luthiers are like with with wood, and it's always very impressive. The skill and knowledge that has to go into making an instrument from wood is so refined it's bewildering. I also knew ceramic artists when I was a teen, and some did some truly amazing work. But those times where they'd pull their artwork out of the kiln to only find it shattered - man, that would crush me.

Sorry for the delay. I have been under a lot of stress for the last week. Their is lots of limitations and challenges with glass, but some time the limitations can be made to work in new ways. For example glass can crystallize in the 1125 deg range, this is bad most of the time, but super cool looking when cut an polished. Glass is the last process of my art work. I must master many other forms, and technics from other arts. I like this part, I is a huge plus to the progression of my projects. Projects fail but that is OK, some times some new and unexpected things occurs. Failures are some times the very best way to learn new things. I spend lots of time documenting variables like a lab experiment, If something happens I want know how, and why. It is very important also to be able to repeat a variations when desired, so good notes and data are must. Art is a process of development, and experimentation.