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RE: Dot Stacking Spoon Pipe Practice Photo Shoot
Even the thought of glass-blowing is intimidating to me. lol It must take a hell of a lot of control and precision to get things to work out just right.
I like the dots! Looks like a fun technique. And it doesn't matter if something isn't perfect ... that's half the point in having something hand-made: it's truly one-of-a-kind!
It is an intimidating art. Its not very forgiving, when you mess up its not easy to fix. Its taught me a lot though in terms of preplanning as well as thinking on the spot. Sometimes a piece cracks while youre working, if you treat it right itll disapear as fast as it came...do anything wrong and itll get worse or even explode. Keeps me on my toes ha
HA! No doubt! I think it would give me too much anxiety. But maybe that's part of the fun... a little bit of adrenaline is good, right? lol
It certainly is part of the fun. I have issues dealing with stressful situations so I view glassblowing as gentle practice for that stuff. Like a piece cracked last night while working, and I just responded quickly in the right way and it completely disappeared. There's a victory in that. Glassblowing is a much more realistic to life artform. Sometimes shit goes wrong and it breaks. Sometimes you;ll spend a lot of time on a piece just to have it fall off the handle at the end and smash on the ground.