Waterspout 15
Artist: Toots Zynsky (American, born 1951)
Date: 1979/1994
Dimensions:
H: 13 1/4 in. (33.6);
Diam: 10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm)
Medium: Glass; blown, with hot-spun glass thread.
Place of Origin: Seattle, Washington
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, and gift of Elliott-Brown Gallery
Object number: 1995.2
Label Text:Mary Ann (“Toots”) Zynsky explores the fragility of glass, suggesting both sculptural object and functional vessel. Her experiments with slumping (heating glass so it “slumps” over a form or mold) and fusing (using heat to bond one or more pieces of glass together) led her to invent a new glass art technique using fiber-optic filaments. Waterspout 15 is an early example of this technique, for which she adopted the term filet de verre (French for “glass thread”). She laboriously pulled threadlike fibers from glass rods by hand to create this work, though she later devised a mechanism that allowed her to pull the filaments more easily.
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