em/brace veneous | 2023

Original artwork by Harriet Schwarzrock

em/brace veneous, clear and red, flame worked cobalt borosilicate glass, electrode, ionised inert gas, electrical current, nylon thread, dimensions variable, glass approx. 57cm x 46cm x 18cm, 2023

signed Harriet Schwarzrock

For Schwarzrock, a pivotal residency at the Corning Museum of Glass Studios earlier this year has informed these works. Manipulating borosilicate glass tubing, Harriet generates filaments that appear to have grown in a circulatory system, rather than mimic laboratory apparatus. She continues to experiment with plasma illumination, through forms that evoke circularity, circulation, and interconnectivity. These tendrils draw upon the concepts of the mobius strip to reveal how circuitous and interconnected systems are. These plasma-illuminated forms further reveal themselves after dark, where the viewers proximity effects their luminous interiors.