Dr. Ayako Tani has brought back the art of building ships in a bottle using the skills she learned as an apprentice under Norman Veitch and Brian Jones of Wearside Glass Sculptures. In addition to reviving this lost art, she has also taken on documenting an oral history of the glassworkers of Sunderland, England.
This article was originally published on page 34 in the Winter 2019 issue of The Flow.