Works from the series “Vessels for air” are of irregular shapes, made of thick, transparent glass. They interact with their size and mass, and the vibrating structure enclosed in the glass makes them seem to live their own lives. They look as if they were squeezed with metal wire – deformed, devoid of symmetry, raw. In some forms, a graphic structure appears when metal oxides come into contact with hot glass. 

The glass molds are finished with a small opening which mainly allows for keeping the air locked inside.

For me, glass is a sculptural material like wood or stone. The idea for glass “air vessels” was born from the experience and experiments of hot joining glass and metal. The technique used came from a passion for experimenting, combining impossible, physically different things – glass and metal. I made my first attempts during my studies, and I used these experiences when completing my diploma and then in professional projects (artistic glass, glazing and stained glass).

 I blow glass into wooden molds in which metal meshes and wires are arranged, I pour the glass mass into the sand in which I prepare compositions from metal elements.

Among works forming a part of the cycle “Vessels for Air”  are not only aggressive forms, squeezed with wire, wrapped with a metal net or coated with metal sheets. The second line of the whole cycle consists of more subtle and composed objects, where the dominating element (instead of metal) is colour.

In massive, thick walls of the forms, colourful lines were enclosed. Sometimes they spill around the whole vessel, sometimes just decorate it with subtle streaks or specks, underlining the slenderness of the form and adding the impression of lightness. Seeming to flow slowly on the vessels’ walls or on the contrary – shoot out from the bottom – those lines add dynamics to the whole composition. 

Colour in these glass forms is a result of metal oxides that exude as a result of high temperature, while the glass is being shaped. In some of the works, colourful lines appeared when the oxides were combined with the hot mass of glass during the blowing process. Those lines, however, are not just an ornament on the surface of vessels, but the internal part of its structures.

The resulting works define my aesthetics, where roughness, coarseness, and sometimes coincidence combine with a noble material, which is glass.

The series of works “Vessels for air” was created in Huta Szkła Gospodarczego Tadeusza Wrześniaka Sp. z o.o. in Ładna near Tarnów.