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Victor J. |
I delight in your glass fusing accomplishments. Like this piece very much. Though I know nothing of this art. Vic
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Hi Vic, DELIGHT?? You have just made my day. Thank you so much for being so kind. Would you wear something like this yourself? If you go to my Glass Artists Gallery www.glassartists.org/astralbeachartifacts then click on Contact Artist (Put "Glass" in Subject of Email) Include a mailing address and I will send to you as a gift, (of course you have to tell your friends about my Glass Artist site)ha the pendant that I just put in my Better Photo Gallery called "South Seas 2" The pendant you picked out has been sold. DICHROIC GLASS was originally created for the Aerospace Industry, and it has many technical uses. Now, artists are using its unique reflective quality to reproduce the gleaming color combinations that natures palette had previously reserved for highlighting peacock plumes, and the irridescent glow of opals. The pieces are made of multiple layers of dichroic glass forged in my kiln. Dichroic glass is a very high tech glass that has properties similar to those of camera lenses. Originally, it was a product made for space exploration. Multiple layers of metallic oxides are applied to a base glass to coat the surface to the thickness of approximately 1/40th of a sheet of paper. The oxides are applied using an electron bombarder inside a vacuum chamber. Once the coating is finished, it is fired on to the glass. The angle of the glass within the vacuum chamber determines the color. In actuality, there is no color produced. What you are seeing is pure light manipulation at its finest. The result of this process is a glass that transmits one color and reflects another with incredible life and brilliance. In 1976, some aerospace workers recognized the Art potential in this glass and introduced it to the glass community… at a whopping $25.00 per square inch! Today, it's a little better, with the sheets costing approximately $300.00 per square foot. My kiln fused dichroic jewels are created in a slow process by placing tiny pieces of glass (about the size of sunflower seeds) together to create a design on a base layer of dichroic glass, and then doing the same thing again, and again, for each layer up to six times in the kiln at temperatures of approximately 1675 degrees. (8 hours total time for each layer in the kiln) When they are done, I use a diamond bit grinder to carve different shapes. Then they are finished with a fire polish. I design a necklace, or bracelet around each piece with 14kt gold or sterling silver, combined with Swarovski Austrian crystals, semi-precious gemstones, Bali beads, etc. It is quite a process, but the finished piece of wearable Art is stunning. Peace, Karen
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