The vast majority of artistic glass is cheesy, tacky stuff that may be nice to look at for a moment in a studio but I’d never want in my home. I appreciate the workmanship involved, but most of it is hideously overpriced and well, just hideous. Kiva Ford’s artistic glass is not much different, however insanely skillful and talented he undoubtedly is (okay, this intricate tiny heart in a jar is kind of neat), but where I am most impressed is in his talking about and execution of scientific glass. The tradition of scientific glass blowers creating one-off pieces for scientists to perform wild experiments in is pretty cool. Kiva Ford on Etsy.

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