Lungs, 2020. Flame-worked borosilicate glass. All photos © Kit Paulson, shared with permission
In a lovely clash of anatomy and antiquity, artist () forms impossibly fragile objects entirely from glass. By referencing historical artworks through lace patterns, or traversing the structures of blood veins and bones found in the human body, she externalizes the internal and reveals hidden visceral structures all around us. She pushes the idea further still by creating wearable sculptures like masks and gloves.
Paulson works primarily with slender tubes of borosilicate glass heated with a torch through a method called flameworking. “Even with its sterility and stability, glass must be manipulated by hand, relying on very the physical, muscle memory of the hands which is invisibly powered by blood and bone,” she shares with Colossal.
The artist just arrived at in Germany, an international forum for glass and visual arts where she’ll teach for the next 6 months. You can explore more of her work on and see dozens of her small glass objects available on .
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