“Como el robledal”
(glass, brass, aged silver)

This title is from my favorite passage of Almafuerte’s Battle Cry:

“Procede como Dios que nunca llora;
o como Lucifer, que nunca reza;
o como el robledal, cuya grandeza
necesita del agua y no la implora…”

transl:

“Proceed like God who never cries;
or like Lucifer, who never prays;
or like the oak, whose magnificence
needs the water and doesn’t beg…”

I know my best pieces by the way I look at them as they come out of the kiln and think about how much it’ll break my heart when someone buys them and takes them away. May they get such love someday, at least.

“Things that are far yet near”
(glass, brass, silver)

The title is also the title of one of Sei Shōnagon’s lists in her Pillow Book.

“The country whence the shadows fall”
(glass, fine silver, aged silver)

Sold.

The title is from George MacDonald’s The Golden Key, where the two protagonists search for a way to find the beautiful, magical land from whence the densely layered and entrancing shadows fall.

Silver leaf instead of brass frit, here. I love incorporating metals into my glass.

“Saffron, nutmeg, dove, earth, blood”
(glass, silver)

The title is from this amazing, insane list of trends for summer 2009. I’ve been saving it for a special occasion. No, seriously. Since it was first published in 2008. Yep. Did I mention that I’m a bit of a word hoarder?

It’s always an adventure trying get the full range of colors I want out of this odd lot glass, Dark Aurora.

“A previously unmentioned army”
(glass, brass, silver)

The title is from Joel Stickley trying too hard to be Ernest Hemingway.

“The superfluity of ribbons”
(glass, silver)

Sold.

Another title drawn from my favorite Stephen Dunn Poem, How to Be Happy: Another Memo to Myself.

Other side, for some variety: