The perfectly round glass sphere has a hole on the top. There are red lines reminiscent of brushstrokes running vertically over the white base, while the white area around the center has fine blue lines—so delicate they could be ballpoint pen. Of course, all the colors are rendered in glass. Yonehara Shinji’s work begins by using a blowpipe to inflate molten glass into a spherical form. Likening the sphere to a canvas, he lays out glass pieces on a flat surface as though he was mixing paint and then he rolls them onto the sphere. Does it depict the temperature of the Earth or a blazing flame? The simple combination of form and color prompts the imagination to myriad thoughts. (HASEGAWA Tamao)
The perfectly round glass sphere has a hole on the top. There are red lines reminiscent of brushstrokes running vertically over the white base, while the white area around the center has fine blue lines—so delicate they could be ballpoint pen. Of course, all the colors are rendered in glass. Yonehara Shinji’s work begins by using a blowpipe to inflate molten glass into a spherical form. Likening the sphere to a canvas, he lays out glass pieces on a flat surface as though he was mixing paint and then he rolls them onto the sphere. Does it depict the temperature of the Earth or a blazing flame? The simple combination of form and color prompts the imagination to myriad thoughts.
(HASEGAWA Tamao)