ORIGINAL Peter Vanderlaan Decorative Glass Vase Blues Start Price USD 450.00 Current Price USD 450.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, July 08, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Location Scottsdale, AZ See more about 'ORIGINAL Peter Vanderlaan Decorative Glass Vase Blues' Description ORIGINAL by Peter Vanderlaan Decorative Glass Vase Blues with Beveled opening Opening of vase measures to be about 5 3/8'' Vase measures to be  6 1/8'' tall Measures to be about 5 3/8'' in diameter Peter VanderLaan of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been melting and working with glass for over 30 years. He combines science with his artwork, making all of his own colors as well as selling the excess and supplying crucibles to the glass industry through his company, Guadalupe Glass Corporation. Pete is currently at work on a book with Henry Halem to render studio glass chemistry, color and furnace construction into something reasonably understandable for the novice and intermediate mad scientist. Artist Statement: "I have been hopelessly addicted to glass as a material for the last twenty-odd years. I have rolled up crushed car windshields and melted them, stripped putty and aluminum siding from salvage glass and melted it, screened arroyo sand and melted it, and have derived sophisticated formulas using food grade lime in the middle of the pacific ocean and melted that. I have melted volcanic rock. I have thrown snowballs into my furnaces for hours. I have been disappointed and elated by glass all in the same minute. I am always drawn back to it. My current work challenges the perceptions of conventional beveled glass. Beveled glass is usually very symmetrical and rigid. It dazzles, but looks like costume jewelry. I want to break away from the symmetric and make the viewer wonder what part is glass and what part is not. I want a tension in the work that screams "fragile" when it in fact is very strong. I also want an illusion that makes the viewer wonder whether what they are looking at is really there. I especially love the reactions from other glassworkers. These pieces are fun and I really like having fun. In 1985, I took a job supervising thirteen fire departments for Santa Fe County. I blew glass in the evenings and on weekends. It was the first time in my life that I had been able to simply design in glass without worrying about selling the pieces. That was a tremendous freeing experience for me. I left the fire service in 1988 to return to glass full-time and I am happily continuing to make design my primary consideration." VISIT OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BUYS!!! WE ASLO CARRY FINEART, TABLETOP, AND JEWELRY!!! ASK US ABOUT OUT WEBSITE!!!!   Place a Bid!