For another project for the glass class that I took during WinterSession, I set out to recreate the feeling of looking into an infinite sky of stars and celestial bodies.
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| An ultra deep field photograph taken by the Hubbles Space Telescope. |
After brainstorming and sketching, I decided to suspend glowing glass bubbles inside an infinity box made out of mirror. I wasn't sure exactly how everything was going to work, but this sketch shows how I initially envisioned this project.
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| A sketch showing my preliminary ideas for the project. |
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Work in progress- Here I am preparing a cardboard box to become my Infinity Box.
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After a lot of work (blowing glass bubbles, filling them with glow paint, and suspending them inside the mirror box that I created), my project was ready for the final critique.
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| My instructor views my infinite environment through the one-way mirror window. |
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| My mirror box gives the viewer a glimpse of infinity. |
The strange glow and atmosphere that my piece gives off reminds me of the almost frightening strangeness of the universe and how little is known about it. When I saw this NASA photo of a star being born, I immediately saw similarities between it and my Infinity Box. Both seemed capable of instilling an uneasy sense of wonder upon the viewer.
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| NASA: A baby star creating green jets, each one three times the distance between Earth and the Sun. |
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| Another view of the interior of my Infinity Box. |
