These three objects have been finished since summer but I have not had a chance to shoot them until recently when they were returned from an exhibition in Beaverton Town Hall. The first four images are of a piece titled "late bounty" which has been silvered on the inside to turn the lenses into fun house mirrors. Optically this piece isn't as engaging as those with greater transparency, but the mirrored surface duplicates the painted exterior.

The next six photographs are of "harvest", and the last set are of a piece titled "early frost". These blown glass forms are painted and fired several times integrating the use of leaves and grasses in an expanding vocabulary of methods and techniques. Some of the detail shots begin to render the depth provided by the lenses on the inside of these forms, but I struggle to capture the details that are seen in person which are most severely activated by the movement of the viewer. These are fun.

Matthew David Stewart