Glass can be shaped into various shapes, such as round, square, flat, three-dimensional, rounded, sharp...and other different shapes and styles. It is a highly malleable material. However, with Making things out of glass is not an easy task. The glass we usually see is a solid solid, but when it is still in the shaping stage, it is in the form of a molten liquid. Shaping extremely high-temperature liquid glass while burning it requires professional skills. You have to pull it, turn it, and blow it before the temperature drops. These actions often have to be performed at the same time to create a glass with good texture and shape. Glass product. In the process of making glass, every step cannot be taken lightly. Even if you are a master who has made many glass products in your life, you still have to concentrate every time you make a work and look at it while you are making it.
American glass craftsman Kiva Ford has been very interested in glassmaking since he was young. The degree he obtained when he graduated from college was related to the production of scientific glassware, so he later joined the American Scientific Glassware Making Society ( American Scientific Glassblowers Society (ASGS), become a member. Kiva Ford makes a lot of glass equipment for experimental research or chemistry, such as flasks, condenser tubes, and other precision instruments that cannot be mass-produced by machinery. However, after get off work, he is an artist who makes exquisite glass art.
Fascinated by the beauty of animals and plants, Kiva Ford often incorporates animal and plant elements into her creations. Wrapping lifelike glass animals in a special-shaped glass vessel is his most common method. In addition, he also integrates the transformation of animals throughout their lives into experimental equipment with complex structures, which makes peoples eyes dazzled.
When it comes to glass making, the only limit is your imagination. --Kiva Ford
I love making art glass as much as I love making experimental equipment. When Kiva Ford makes art, he likes to focus on making very small and delicate things. At the same time, he also enjoys turning his imagination into reality.
Putting things into the glass without any openings is such a complicated construction method that really tests your patience and skills. From thingsFrom the shaping of parts, the production of containers, the design of shapes, to the final layer-by-layer stacking to form a single piece, every step must be done carefully. If something goes wrong in one place, you may have to do it all over again.
The things that can be made with glass are limitless, but only by having the technology to operate it and the novel ideas that constantly emerge can they realize their greatest possibilities. Kiva Ford is constantly challenging himself, integrating existing techniques to produce new works, or practicing new techniques to create more possibilities for his works, both of which enable him to continue to improve.
