Paperweight artist Melissa Ayotte describes how working with glass is a transformation that uses fire to change it from solid to fluid states. In that change, form is discovered or created from what was previously a dull rod of colored glass in the dance at the edge of where the flame meets the supercooled liquid called glass.

This article was originally published on page 22 in the Summer 2020 issue of TheFlow^®.

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