Circle Of Life
2017 489 views
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Details
- Category
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 17 × 17 in
- Year
- 2017
- Edition
- Unique piece
- Framed
- No
- Signed
- Yes
Each of the pieces in this series of glass vials sculptures takes nearly a month to be created and involves a painstaking, multi-step process that begins with preparing each small glass container. First removing the labels, a step that’s repeated 4 to 30 times depending on amount of glue used to fix them to the glass that needs to be completely clean of any debris. To clarify: LT cleaned over 1,000 small containers before she started designing this series! When time came to shape them, she had to place them directly inside the kiln, positioning them one by one according to the design. They were then fused at 1500F in the kiln, and cold fused on reused pressed wood base. The beauty of Circle of Life tells the story not only of how it was made, but evokes a connection with the larger natural world.
Lourdes Torgersen is a visual artist who was raised overseas and lives in Houston for the last 10 years. Art has always been an important part of her life. Growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and being raised by her artist parents, she learned at an early age to explore and express emotions through the use of varieties of media and materials. She has a bachelor degree in Communications, with specialization in Public Relations, but has started her professional career as a graphic designer. The background on commercial art, allows her to develop ideas by manipulating digital images on Photoshop. When she pieces together fragmented images from memories, formed by moments half observed and then forgotten, she reaches a familiar place where she explores an ambiguous shifting space. Glass becomes the sort of medium chosen where she applies these prospects. In 2007, Lourdes Torgersen started her art business. Since then, Lourdes's energy is devoted to working with glass in recognizing its beauty, multidimensional qualities and allowing the materials to dictate design. The evolution of her work is to allow the glass to free itself into its natural liquid state, directing its flow, and then freezing that shape.
Melvin Thambi