Here is an image of a piece of glass that I was asked to paint by a friend of mine to be auctioned off as a fund raiser. The due date for this project jumped forward by several weeks and I was not able to apply as much imagery as I would have liked.  The central glass sphere was blown by my friend, Andy Paiko, and has six hollow transparent balls made from color which I mixed several years ago at Penland School of Crafts. cold fused to its surface along with some transparent blue enamel which I fired on.  I filled it with water to increase its optical intensity and capped it with a solid clear ball.  The object weighs right at eighty pounds and is difficult to move.  The space in which this photograph was shot had limited lighting options so unfortunately this flat image is the best one I was able to take of this project.   The title of this piece is "valence memory"

-Matthew Stewart