Cobalt Blue Vortex Bowl Product:Cobalt Blue Vortex Bowl built up the thickness a

built up the thickness a bit with wax

lathe-turned bubinga base on this refined

This piece is part of the artist's Caldera Collection

Printed with archival pigment inks on fine art rag paper

curving the bright metal into a visual tornado and affixing a juicy baroque pearl at its base

Cobalt Blue Vortex Bowl Product:Cobalt Blue Vortex Bowl built up the thickness aThis handblown glass platter is created by first rolling a molten clear bubble of glass through a layer of cobalt blue glass fragments (about the size of rock salt), and then rolling it though similar sized white powdered glass. The next step is to blow the bubble into an aluminum optic mold that has 12 triangular ribs on the inside of it. The ribbed bubble is heated and twisted to create the vortex spiral. Another layer of molten clear glass is