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Incalmo Series

Vessel No. 7

Two separately blown forms joined at a precise color seam — cobalt meets amber at the equator.

TechniqueIncalmo

Year2024

in·cal·moVenetian, 16th century

Incalmo

Two separately blown bubbles are cut at the equator and joined while still molten. The seam holds color against color — a visible horizon inside the glass. Timing is everything: a second too late and the glass refuses the marriage.

The join is made freehand, at temperature, with no second attempt.

Glass sculpture with twisted white cane pattern through forest green glass base, studio lighting

Sold

Filigrana Collection

Cane Study III

Drawn canes of opal white twist through a gather of deep forest green, frozen mid-breath.

TechniqueCane Pulling

Year2024

Flat glass disc with intricate murrine flower patterns in multiple colors, light passing through

Exhibition

Pattern Works

Murrine Disc

Forty-eight hand-cut murrine slices fused into a single luminous plane. Each flower repeats, none identically.

TechniqueMurrine

Year2023

cane pull·ingRoman tradition, adapted

Cane Pulling

A gather is elongated by two people walking apart — one holding the pipe, one a pontil — until the glass stretches into a rod of pure color. The rod is cut into lengths, bundled, and fused into a new gather. What enters as a bundle of lines exits as a single vessel.

Each cane bundle is unique. The pattern cannot be predicted before the final blow.

Process — Uncut

Gather to
Finished Form

60-second take — no cuts

One continuous take. One gather. The camera stays close enough that you can see the surface skin form — the moment the glass remembers it used to be sand.

Organic free-blown glass form in amber tones, minimal shaping to reveal natural glass movement

Available

Raw Process

Gather Form I

The gather left almost as found — minimal intervention, maximum trust in the material's own gravity.

TechniqueFree Blow

Year2025

moo·ree·nayMurano, 15th century

Murrine

A complex cane is built layer by layer around a colored core — then stretched until the cross-section reveals a flower, a star, a face. The cane is sliced thin and the slices arranged on a surface. Each slice is a window into a structure built blind, revealed only at the cut.

A single murrine cane may take three days to construct before a single slice is taken.

Tall glass chalice with reticello net pattern, two layers creating moiré light effect, dark studio

Commission

Venetian Studies

Reticello Chalice

Two layers of opposing cane nets enclose a grid of air bubbles. The grid bends the light into a moiré of color.

TechniqueReticello

Year2025

Molten

Available Works & Commissions

Every piece is a single
irrepeatable breath

The archive holds every piece made since 2019 — available works, sold works, and commissions in progress. Organized by series, technique, and year.

Commission inquiries — studio@molten.glass