FLOWSTONES (RIVERINE)

Part of the project Elements for a Light Garden
Supported by the Ontario Arts Council
Hand-blown glass, water collected from Silver Creek, Niagara Escarpment UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, Ontario, Canada
Silver Creek is situated in the Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
2021

 
 
The house now communes with two gardens, one made of leaves and passing birds, the other of winds and migrant clouds.
— Emilio Ambasz
 
 
 
 

Flowstones (Riverine) is a series of glass sculptures created as part of a project titled Elements for a Light Garden. Each hand-blown hollow sculpture was partially filled with water collected from the headwaters of Silver Creek, a tributary of the Credit River, within the Niagara Escarpment UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve in Ontario, Canada. Holding equal parts of air and water, the glass forms create self-sustaining biomes, where the two inter-relating elements maintain equilibrium.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Intro. Ambasz, Emilio. The architecture of Luis Barragàn. The Museum of Modern Art, distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1976, p. 34.

 
 

The Ontario Arts Council is gratefully acknowledged for funding this project