If you want to know…

If you want to know where you’re going you need to know where you are from Period. How many times have wise elders and scholars repeated this special sentence? I don’t know but the saying has stuck because of its power to make one look deep at their tracks left behind. Any maker/creator knows this well. The intimacy of our past follows us going forward. So occasionally I stop turn around and look. Here is a picture burst of a few creations i’ve left behind me in my journey. Thats where I have been in the past. An event in the past that happened in that moment and so now it is. The creation if it goes well sometimes sells. Sometimes If it went some other way will be gifted to friends and family. Sometimes I keep them on my shelves in my studio until the right person comes along at a good time. One thing for sure is, I will always find a way to make new glass creations. I know too much. The history is too strong. So I find a way to get in front of a glowing furnace to gather up a gob of molten glass. Its like I get back to my heart, i’de swim the Mississippi River and pick up a pipe on my knees to play with the fire. Let the glass sing, let me sing, and make art - glass. Thanks for reading and feel welcome to look around or contact me anytime with questions or comments. ~ Zach