Glass Mushroom Sculpture, Large

A hand-blown art glass sculpture of commanding presence, this large mushroom form from John Richard rises eleven and a half inches in a silhouette that is at once organic and deeply considered. The blown glass medium lends the piece an interior luminosity — light moves through it rather than simply across it, shifting with the hour and the room. Scaled generously at ten inches across, it anchors a surface with the quiet authority of an object that has been made, not manufactured.