Description

Contrast by Floor Kaspers. This sculpture features an vintage Venetian Glass Mold with colorful glass pins on one side a white porcelain pins on the other. The mold is 7″ x 6″ x 6″ when closed, but when opened up it is 12″ wide.

About the Artist

Floor Kaspers is a glass and bead artist and bead researcher from the Netherlands. She has written several books on the history of beads. After becoming interested in the history of beads, she also wanted to get more ‘hands-on’ knowledge and started making her own glass beads and weaving beads. Her current artwork focuses on creating sculptures in gradually changing colors from both lampwork headpins as well as seed beads. Small components come together to create intricate, sometimes wearable, objects.

Her interest in beads and lampworking has since brought her around the world, where she has been documenting beadmaking techniques. From a seed bead factory in the Czech Republic to a wood-fueled furnace in India. From a lampworking set up at the kitchen counter in China to a traditional bead-making studio in Venice. Her bead travel has led her to a strong belief that there are always more options than you think to make something. Explore, have fun, break the rules.

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