arid, scorched endless, expansive muted, magnificent

As I manipulate glass materials to their technical limits in size and form, evocation of the Australian landscape emerges from the kiln. My early, formative years were spent in the Australian outback town of Woomera, on Kokatha Country, surrounded by an arid, treeless desert. The nuanced beauty I first encountered there is a recurring theme as I purposefully work with molten glass flow, colour reactions and organic three-dimensional forms, simulating rock forming processes of sedimentation, metamorphism, intrusion and erosion. Imagery from an ancient Australian river, captured by satellite, translated into glass. Flumen is conversely both fragile and strong, delicate and bold.

Photographer – Michael Haines