ELIN ISAKSSON
I take my inspiration from the play of light, texture and movement in nature. Glass reflects atmospheres and emotions. I feel, ‘Making glass is a way of accessing a world increasingly excluded from our everyday life’.
I don’t feel bound to a certain technique; I will use one or mix techniques that I believe suit best the particular expression I want to achieve. In my architectural glass I like the way I can ’bring it to life’, give it movement, texture and manipulating the material in different techniques such as kiln cast and direct cast.
I use the glassblowing technique to achieve sculptural and organically/growing forms. Forms bend and twist organically. The objects do not necessarily represent a descriptive picture of nature, but through the elastic, tactile abstraction it represents.
I try to recreate the beauty of the completely unspoiled with the pattern and forms of the natural world through molten glass infused with movement. The movement symbolises an energy which happens when working with molten glass. I want my objects to communicate with my audience.
