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Saturday, August 28, 2010

SCA Open Day

We spent a large chunk of our Saturday at the annual open day at Sydney College of the Arts.  Spike had roles to play ... guiding prospective students around the glass studio giving helpful talk, lamp working exhibition beneath Mark Eliot's animated film showing on a continuous loop, assisting a little in the hot shop.  I spent most of my time perched on the edge of the hot shop watching staff and students blow various pieces.  It's a fascinating process.  Each piece begins with a single lump of molten glass gathered from a pool in a furnace on a pole.  From that point onwards I am lost.  Usually working as the creative driver in a team of two the glass artist blows, turns, adds more glass, clips, pulls, spins and swings the molten material.  Somewhere between forty minutes and an hour and a half later the initial idea inside the artist's head appears in as near its final form as it will ever be.  No two pieces are the same.  The process has a hypnotic quality.  You wouldn't want to leave until you've satisfied yourself of how it all comes out.

The vegetarian lasagne for lunch left quite a lot to be desired.  Heat was one of them. 

Cecked out the ravens.  Still there.
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