Nicolas Aubagnac
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mysterious amber
Coming from the dawn of time
Amber is a fascinating material: a fossil resin secreted millions of years ago by conifers or flowering plants, in which insects are sometimes even trapped…
It's hard to imagine such a long period of time contained within a small amber crystal…
Thus was born the Ambra vase. By choosing glass paste, I accepted an element of chance, because until the mold has cooled, until it is broken to extract the block of glass paste, we don't know what we will find inside…
This is the price to pay to hope to rediscover the warm hues of this mysterious mineral from the dawn of time.
A necessary element of randomness…
Molten glass requires the talents of an experienced master glassmaker.
What we call "molten glass" is actually pieces of crystal that are mixed with pigments and heated to a very high temperature so that the crystal fuses with the colored pigments.
The art of the master glassmaker is therefore to control the distribution of pigments in his mold and then to control the fusion in order to obtain the desired aesthetic result.
But nothing is visible, because everything happens in the secrecy of the mold...
It takes several days for the oven to gradually reach the required temperature, and several more days for the piece to cool in the mold.
It is only when we break the mold that we discover whether the piece is successful...or needs to be redone!
