A craft-based exploration with lampworked glass as the medium, examining how flame, gravity, and the brief window of workable time together determine the final form of a piece
I chose glass because, like ceramics, it offers both high formal plasticity and a wide freedom of material combination — and because lampworking was a craft I encountered during the Hong Kong-Style Milk Tea project but never had the chance to practice firsthand. Lampworking is defined by a fluid, one-stretch process — every joint must be completed within the brief window in which the glass remains workable. The representative piece from this phase is a skeletal-hand wineglass: an opaque black skeletal hand and a transparent vessel joined segment by segment under the flame — where the supporting structure of a vessel is usually designed to disappear, here it is reversed: the skeletal hand becomes the visual focus, and the structure itself carries the narrative