Lampworking — Flame-Worked Glass    2022


A personal exploration in craft. 

Under the flame, glass rods are melted, drawn, shaped, and joined segment by segment — every joint and curve formed within a few seconds of workable time. This skeletal-hand wineglass is the representative piece from this phase: opaque black glass against a transparent vessel, where the supporting structure itself becomes the narrative.

Like my work in nerikomi, this is how I stay in conversation with material. Fire and gravity decide much of the final form; the designer's task is to leave room between them.
© 2026
Shichen Yang