MOUTH BLOW FOR A MINUTE

Holmegaard Glasvaerk place of production for Ivy Series and Magical Lake Incense Burner 

Holmegaard has been running as a workplace for generations of glassworkers for almost 200 years. It still is, running hot: today the workshop is open for public eyes and is extended with a museum for glass and glass history. 

The action in the workshop is like fluid farming in an industrial sand box. It is three glassblowers moving as if siblings or one very very confident body. Hands, arms, feet move effortlessly accurate, perfectly timed and coordinated. Hands that handle hot without waisting energy on words.

YOU´VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE WILD NETWORK EATING SHADOW UNDER ROSES.

Eyes follow glob of molten glass on blowpipe tip leave heated hell to journey into wooden mold on floor. Glob is inflated slightly as other tip is kissed by blow. A gesture from one blower triggers the next to release a tiny transparent miracle. Glass is drawn through air, breathing only because of skilled hands. Until next step. Time is a savage term, fluid in this sandbox.

MOUTHBLOW FOR A MINUTE. AND WAIT FOR THE SUN TO BOUNCE IN YOUR ILLUSIVE CONTAINER. ( KEEP IT).

Eyes follow glob of molten glass on blowpipe tip leave heated hell to journey into wooden mold on floor. Glob is inflated slightly as other tip is kissed by blow. A gesture from one blower triggers the next to release a tiny transparent miracle. Glass is drawn through air, breathing only because of skilled hands. Until next step. Time is a savage term, fluid in this sandbox.

FIRE UP EASTHETICIZATION OF THE LOWER SKIES TO REMIND LUNGS TO INHALE AND BRAIN TO TRUST THAT OXY IS SHARED.

Eyes follow other glob as it hits open mold on colder metal base. Fumes blur the image as wet wood tool is pushed into semi liquid mass shaping an easy pool. Fire up aestheticization.

Words by Amanda Lydert