This project is an experimentation with blowing glass bubbles into hand-crocheted forms. Textiles, and crochet specifically, are traditions that evoke warm, nostalgic memories. When a glass bubble is blown into one of these crocheted forms, the texture and shape of the fabric is picked up on the glass, but the fabric is transformed in the process. The fabric is often consumed by fire; sometimes there is a charred piece of fabric remaining, but sometimes there are no recognizable pieces left.

Glassblowing is a long-standing tradition that is associated with smooth surfaces and beautiful curved forms. Hot glass is a material that can't be worked with hands. Using hand worked crochet to give texture and shape to the glass is a way of transferring the tradition of handwork to the tradition of glassblowing. In the moment of bringing these two traditions together, the glass loses its smooth elegant quality but it gains the hand worked, bumpy texture and organic shapes of the crochet. The crochet loses its comforting softness and cleanness and becomes a pile of burnt trash. 

Seeing the remnants of the crochet is important to this piece because they are a memorial to the tradition that was destroyed. During the blowing process, the crochet held the glass and shaped it. Now  that the fabric is destroyed, the glass holds the crochet as a reminder of how it got its form.