STEPHANIE BOURIS

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Hot Shop 8/10

Hot sculpted stem experiment- turned out less of a vessel stem and more of a candlestick, but I'm still thrilled with it.

This was attempt 2, attempt 1 died when I got too complacent and neglected the moile. Living and learning!

In Hobart: At Salamanca Markets- lots and lots of lampwork EVERYWHERE!!! Also visited Wooby Gallery run by Ruth Allen- one day before I heard of her Glass Futures exhibition.

During a morning in Richmond town we visited an antiques display with heaps of Murano and Art Glass. I kept seeing this particular pink.

In Launceston: when we checked into out hotel I noticed these odd panes in the windows, with unworked punty marks and all. I had never seen this before but my friend explained to me that they're very common in the uk in places like old pubs as they are offcuts of the pane making process. You learn something new every day

I also made my friend drive us up to Poatina Arts Studio to check out the hot shop and facilities. We spent a bit of time exploring the town- it was unlike anywhere I've been. It was built in the 1950s around a Hydro scheme, then bought by Fusion Australia- it wasn't at all like the old-timey touristy Tasmanian towns that we passed so many of during our trip. Luckily I arrived a few days after the furnace was turned off and Keith Dougall had left for a holiday but I was lucky Rose Hamilton was generous enough to show me around and answer my questions.

Somewhere- passed another knick-knacks joint with this assortment of glass fruit- the Murano pieces priced sky high above the rest. It also had an impressive collection of uranium glass and cut crystal.

MONA-

Stuff from wednesday. Made long skinny cups, rob demoed a wide low walled cup.

Tried to make some swirly stems but it's SOO HARD!!! Especially to get everything on centre. I tried three times each more successful than the last.

Fruits of Monday- a few first tries.

First attempt at overlaying colour - didn't get very far down the bubble. Plus, it ended up too big with three layers of glass on it so I think I'll stick to waxing my jacks to hell and coping

Colour tests, surviving goblet, stem test. Came out of the annealer today but I didn't get a chance to sandblast the colours. I wonder how the sandblast is affected by going back in the hotbox and glory hole

Making colour cups! I made 4 today, two orange and one grey and blue.

Some failed stems, I was trying to use stamp foot and it was just too heavy and both cracked.

Tried to just flatten the bottom of the stem with a paddle, resulted in a very small base. When I picked up the cup from the hot box it cracked immediately but Astrid showed me heating it and blowing into it and it melted back together. That's when I leaned to crank up the pickup box before picking up something thin. But it survived!

Beautiful stem I made in class with a blown foot. DIED. Learned too late that to knock off from a blown foot you just tap it, no torching the moil or water involved.