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Flameworked Glass, Carnivorous Bees, and $500M Of Bitcoin Lost In A Garbage Dump
I find you the finest reading material in this week’s “Linkfest”
The week has begun.
So: Time to take a break!
Kick back with my weekly “Linkfest”, filled with the most absorbing links I could collect from the vasty Link Fields of the Internet …
1) 🎨 The flameworked glass art of Amber Cowan
This is truly gorgeous stuff — Amber Cowan’s filigreed, detailed works of flameworked glass. (Above!) The more I look at them, the more odd little details I notice. For some reason I didn’t at first see the hand reaching for the stem of the wineglass (in that particular piece above), but it’s spooky.
Flameworked glass has a naturally organic quality to it, a feature that Cowan uses to make her art seem positively acrawl with life. As Colossal describes it …
Her delicate works are often monochromatic and revitalize vintage elements, including a figure from a McKee Glass Company vase in “Visions of the Night Muse in Jade,” for example, or the baubles in varying shades of purple that comprise “Hummingbirds Feast on Helio and Lavender.” The pressed glass pieces pay homage to the once-thriving industry…
