Not your daughter's home made pot holder

 I call this sculpture "Open Weave." It is on a 10" x 10" flat piece of black glass backed with clear. The "squiggles" were slumped about a week ago.  They stuck to the rods on which they were slumped, and broke off in different lengths. 

Boy was I mad. I broke all but one of the rods trying to get the glass to part company. That is what I get for trusting Boron Nitride mold release spray to last more than one firing. It didn't. The glass I had left from that slump I wove (literally) together and came up with this.

Another bunch of broken stuff put to good use. The 

squiggles are tack fired onto the fused black and clear glass.

A new direction--Contemporary!

This is a 3-stage firing project I started several days ago. The diameter of the 96 COE dichro center is 13" and the clear 96 COE base is 17.5". The dichro is purposely cut so that the center eye is still in the middle of the clear base, with the surrounding dichro closer to the edge of the clear in  one place than in another. I had previously slumped 96 COE colored rods over "squiggle" forms. Some are clear and some are opaque.

The first stage was to fuse the 13" dichro to the 17.5" clear at 1460 df in 5 ramps. After cooling that fuse, I tack fused the squiggles to the dichro and clear glass at 1265 df in 4 ramps. There are now three layers of glass to slump in the bowl form. This was done at 1265 df in 5 ramps. The bowl is 1.75" deep. Creating contemporary art is fun!