Rhizomatic Glass

2025

Blown Glass, Black 3D Print (Polymer, SLS),

81 cm (h) x 45 cm (w), 51 cm (l)

work has been commissioned by the M+ museum and is in the permanent collection

Rhizomatic Glass constructs a state in which neither its digital nor analog parts could be read individually and where each part could not be described independently from the other. Form and material are merged in the glass, and one follows the other, as glass has its own physical properties that cannot be worked into every single shape or form. The work investigates the possibility of collaborative making from the glass workshop to the digital environment of my practice and introduces the notion of performance into the amalgamation between glass and 3D printed polymer. Rhizomatic Glass is based on the previous works,Glass Entanglement and Mutations.

In both series,the glass volumes were 3D scanned in an arranged situation, held by a series of jigs. This created a situation of disruption between the digital and the analog in which the digital augments the actual,not through methods of common overlay such as projection mapping but through digital construction of their gestalt, adding a void in the form. This void is invisible and performative to challenge the relationship between the digital practice and the craft workshop — between techne and poiesis. The work consists of the physical separation of the cellular glass volumes from one another and the 3D printed form interacting with these single objects to form an ecosystem between the glass volumes.The elements are held together by digitally modeled, tendril-like structures, analogous to the biological cell growth when forming multicellular higher-order organisms – Rhizomatic Glass.