Eggplant Purple and Turquoise Handblown Glass Sculpture I

A sinuous horizontal form rendered in handblown glass, this John Richard sculpture draws its authority from the tension between deep eggplant and luminous turquoise — two tones that seem to breathe within the material itself. At nearly thirty-seven inches across, the piece commands a surface with the quiet confidence of something both ancient and entirely of its moment. The handblown process leaves its mark in the most considered way, ensuring that light moves through and across the glass with an organic unpredictability no mechanical process could replicate. It is, in every sense, a work that asks to be lived with rather than simply displayed.