lampworking final

The basis for our final assignment in Lampworking was "Dreaming of Reality and the Reality of Dreams." Basically, we could make whatever we wanted as long as we could speak well enough to convince Emilio that it was something from a dream. I created a mobile of knitted and glass birds, with a couple that were transitioning between the two materials.
There was a nest on the floor, and the birds spiraled up and away from it on the mobile, with the knitted birds closest to the nest and the glass birds farthest away. I remember having dreams as a child where my toys would come to life and become fantastical, only to wake up and find that they were still just inanimate objects. I thought of this piece in that way. As you spiraled down to the nest, you moved deeper in to sleep, but spiraling upwards was waking up, only to find that these soft and colorful birds were really clear, cold glass.
Ultimately, I think it was a really fun and cute project, and I am going to hang it over Henry's play area in the living room for now, and one day in his bedroom.
Check out some pictures taken while it was hanging at critique today: