Sarah King
Era

I have placed remnants of the Tasmanian forest flora and newspaper in-between glass and fused them. These specimens remain as a white ash remnant or black burnt image fused into the shape of a butterfly-egg structure. The watery quality of the glass gives the appearance of a pond, distorting and twisting in response to the heat of the kiln. When humans change the forest biodiversity, we distort the real world; by the way we choose to live.

 I hope to give the viewer the idea of old news and the lost forest by reminding them of our relationship with indigenous native plants and the fragile insect population. The intrigue or romance of the glass will draw people into discovering the fossilized plant remnants, the newspaper and the six sided dome form; the shell of the butterfly egg, one of the strongest structures in the world created by natural events.

Finally the glass will clearly show an aging or scarring process, through the devitrification, skinning and compressing the glass layers, distorting the image as a landscape in distress, like a message in a bottle!