DOUG RANDALL

Doug Randall's luminous fused glass pieces combine vibrant, earthy colors with meditative, reverent forms. The delicately balanced vessels placed on glass receptacles reference the gesture of giving, suggesting spiritual offerings.

Randall's amalgamated glass pieces are created by cutting and arranging colored glass into patterns and fusing them together in a kiln. After a cool down, the combined glass sheet is placed over a mold and put back in the kiln, where gravity allows the glass to slump into the shaped mold. After cooling again, the shaped glass is cut, wheel-ground, edged, beveled, sandblasted and finally polished, all this by hand, before going back into the kiln for a final forming.