Ocean Blue Handblown Glass Vase II

A slender column of clear handblown glass rises just under twelve inches, its form caught between sculpture and vessel — the kind of object that holds a room's light and quietly returns it. The transparency is absolute, allowing the eye to travel through rather than stop at the surface, so that whatever it holds — a single stem, a branch, nothing at all — becomes the composition. Proportioned with an almost architectural restraint, it brings to a console or library shelf the considered simplicity that distinguishes a well-edited interior from a merely furnished one.