About glass, because someday I will get to it not only in theory; and everything I do now leads to it, although not directly. There are three universes: blown glass, molten glass and thin glass that is worked directly with fire (chemical glassware, bongs, some goblets). I love hand-blown glass pieces very much. Its qualities cannot be reproduced in any other way; it requires a lot of hard work and skill. To become a blown glass master, you need to study thoroughly for a very long time. It also slowly kills your eyesight, back and lungs. The good news is that if you know what you want to make, a workshop can make a product based on your sketch or mould. This is a fairly common practice. Who I am following: Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert Tanja Pak Masaki Kusadax 💔 Robert Comploj There are others, maybe later I will make a list with comments. I won't write about working with fire yet, because I don't know much and I'm not interested in it. Maybe I'll get to the neon (tubes) and light side of it someday. But I follow Johen Holz—he most likely combines blown glass and a gas burner in his works. But fused (or molten, or cast) glass that is fired in the same kilns as ceramics is my goal. To do this, you need to learn how to make moulds, understand how the material behaves, have access to sufficiently powerful kilns and, of course, the material itself. You can order glass of a certain brand, but some types of industrial glass are also suitable. Reduce, reuse, recycle, so to speak. It's strange, but I don't have a selection of masters so far, I just like some of the works. But I have a clear idea of the kind of work I will try to implement when it comes to that. There's a wonderful Richard Whiteley from Australia though, and there's a video with him that I really love: it's a demonstration with blown glass, an experiment for him. My favourite moment is when he explains the key difference in processes and approach to glass. His normal pieces are fired and then cooled for weeks, sometimes months. Then there's the surface treatment. Blown glass means minutes, a few hours at most of very fast, intensive work. Then a few hours in the annealer to cool down—and that's it. If you watch the video, don't miss the part about the telescope lens (start here).