maybe it is because it takes so much energy and work to make blown glass that i find it hard to throw away scraps of glass. these long strips are the parts i cut out from the cylinders that opened flat in one sheet.
i decided to put these strips together and then fuse them together in the kiln.
this was the result.
it was unexpected, and at first i did not like them, but after spending some time with them i decided that i did like them.
i am not sure what happened but fusing glass requires heating the glass up to 830 degrees celcius. i think that having the coloured glass sit at this temperature caused it to bubble and jump, escpecially the white.
usually when people form glass in a kiln it is with special kiln working glass that is formulated to be worked using slumping and fusing processes. I am kind of breaking the rules by doing this stuff with furnace glass. but hey, don;t know unless you try. i am not sure i could recreate the same results again. i will attempt it when i have more scraps back home.
in the meantime the next step i think will be to slump these fused sheets.
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