Glass: Where Is the Blower?

A set of hand-blown glass objects. These are water bottles, cups, and vases, similar in shape but no two are exactly alike: the walls vary in thickness, the bottoms are thicker and show swirling patterns; small, intentionally preserved air bubbles are visible inside; the rims are fire-polished and slightly undulating; the glass has subtle greenish or amber tones, not completely colorless. One piece has a pontil mark from the blowing pipe on its bottom. They are placed on a wooden shelf by a window, and as sunlight passes through, it casts bright, distorted light spots and focal points on the wall and countertop. Avoid: using uniformly colorless, machine-produced glass, eliminating air bubbles and variations in thickness, making all objects perfectly identical, using high-saturation colored glass.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組手工吹製的玻璃器物。它們是水瓶、杯與花器,形狀相近但沒有兩件完全相同:器壁的厚薄不均,底部較厚並可以看見旋轉的紋路;內部有刻意保留的細小氣泡;杯口是火燒圓潤的,邊緣略有起伏;玻璃帶有淡淡的青綠或琥珀色調,不是完全無色。有一件的底部有吹管留下的痕跡。它們放在窗邊的木層板上,陽光穿過時在牆面與檯面上投下明亮而扭曲的光斑與焦點。避免:使用機器量產的均勻無色玻璃、消除氣泡與厚薄的變化、讓所有器物完全一致、使用高彩度的染色玻璃。