Glass becomes soft when heated, and eventually turns into a molten liquid. After the late 1980s, Takahashi Yoshihiko made many works using the hot glass technique, in which glass is shaped and decorated while it is hot. Because the glass hardens as it cools there is only limited time to complete the work. Takahashi said of his creative process that it involved controlling various elements while giving shape to his ideas. For this reason, he saw no clear distinction between making a bowl and another less functional object. Arc is one of his representative series from the 1990s. The gently curving form is wedded with a range of effects, including dots created by baking enamel on the surface and spraying with abrasive sand.
(HASEGAWA Tamao)
Glass becomes soft when heated, and eventually turns into a molten liquid. After the late 1980s, Takahashi Yoshihiko made many works using the hot glass technique, in which glass is shaped and decorated while it is hot. Because the glass hardens as it cools there is only limited time to complete the work. Takahashi said of his creative process that it involved controlling various elements while giving shape to his ideas. For this reason, he saw no clear distinction between making a bowl and another less functional object. Arc is one of his representative series from the 1990s. The gently curving form is wedded with a range of effects, including dots created by baking enamel on the surface and spraying with abrasive sand.
(HASEGAWA Tamao)