"At a young age I found myself loading up pillow cases with glass bottles and going to the
parking lot behind my house and throwing them as high as I could to make the perfect little pieces
of broken glass.
I would then sort and use the ideal pieces to enhance paintings, create mixed media pieces, and
glue them together with hot glue to create vessels. This interest grew greater throughout my high
school experience and as a junior in high school I attended the summer high school section of
Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program. There I took my first dip of glass out of the furnace
and knew I wanted to work with glass for the rest of my life.
Now, I am currently attending the Cleveland Institute of Art, in my third year as a glass major.
My work is an exploration in different techniques and processes of working with the material. I am
drawn to the intensity, dedication, exploration, teamwork, and creativity that glass working allows.
Every time I start to make a piece it is a new learning experience, and even if I have made a similar
piece before, the experience and manner of creating is always slightly different and new things are
always exposed.
This current body of work resembles geodes which are naturally found in nature. The process
leads them to relate to geodes because they are made as an almost closed vessel and then cut and
polished to reveal the inside. The same goes for natural geodes found in nature as one cracks them
open to reveal the beauty inside. This work requires an intensive team of people working together
to achieve one goal. Once completed, I start to cut into the piece, to reveal the most beautiful part
of it, the inside. The inside of the work allows the viewer to get lost in the pattern and optical
illusions that the glass has created from the way I applied the surface texture. The patterns created
are similar to mazes, though with no real start or finish. The patterns also seem like they are three
dimensional but they are just an an illusion created by the layering of the texture on the outside,
the inside is completely smooth. This work challenges my physical ability as well as my technical
and mental knowledge of the material."
Jacob Moscowitz
parking lot behind my house and throwing them as high as I could to make the perfect little pieces
of broken glass.
I would then sort and use the ideal pieces to enhance paintings, create mixed media pieces, and
glue them together with hot glue to create vessels. This interest grew greater throughout my high
school experience and as a junior in high school I attended the summer high school section of
Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program. There I took my first dip of glass out of the furnace
and knew I wanted to work with glass for the rest of my life.
Now, I am currently attending the Cleveland Institute of Art, in my third year as a glass major.
My work is an exploration in different techniques and processes of working with the material. I am
drawn to the intensity, dedication, exploration, teamwork, and creativity that glass working allows.
Every time I start to make a piece it is a new learning experience, and even if I have made a similar
piece before, the experience and manner of creating is always slightly different and new things are
always exposed.
This current body of work resembles geodes which are naturally found in nature. The process
leads them to relate to geodes because they are made as an almost closed vessel and then cut and
polished to reveal the inside. The same goes for natural geodes found in nature as one cracks them
open to reveal the beauty inside. This work requires an intensive team of people working together
to achieve one goal. Once completed, I start to cut into the piece, to reveal the most beautiful part
of it, the inside. The inside of the work allows the viewer to get lost in the pattern and optical
illusions that the glass has created from the way I applied the surface texture. The patterns created
are similar to mazes, though with no real start or finish. The patterns also seem like they are three
dimensional but they are just an an illusion created by the layering of the texture on the outside,
the inside is completely smooth. This work challenges my physical ability as well as my technical
and mental knowledge of the material."
Jacob Moscowitz
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