glass

I’m fixing a hole…

…where the rain could get in?

A close-up view of a cracked window against a cloudy blue sky. — i360, Brighton

Surprised to find lots of cracks in the glass of the i360 in several places. I guess these panes are not easy to replace.

A close-up image of a delicate, translucent, wavy line resembling a fine thread or filament against a blurred, reflective background.

Still Life

One of the windows of the B&B we stayed in the first couple of weeks after our arrival in Hove.

Just found these 2 images lingering on the chip in an older camera. The interaction of sunlight with this building at the end of our street in Brighton, housing the Department of Work and Pensions and a Job Centre (most of whose workers seemed to spend a lot of their time taking smoke breaks directly under our windows), often stuck me as offering photographic possibilities, though I never captured them.

Pastels and Glass

Architexture

Shaping Glass

As part of October Craft Month (Farnham is a World Craft Town) UCA hosted the Shaping Glass exhibition in the James Hockey Gallery in October, which I was lucky enough to see a little before it opened. Below are some quick snaps I took in the gallery.

Glass Cube

I’m not sure what this structure was exactly. It’s a reflective cube built over a pond or marsh that one reaches via the short footbridge in the lower left quadrant of this image. I couldn’t resist walking across to see and, of course, take a reflective self-portrait, below.

Glasses

I went, with a number of my classmates, to a private view at the new Michaell Hoppen gallery opening in Holland Park a couple of weeks ago, for one of our most interesting lecturers, Ori Gersht. I was struck by the collection of shiny objects at the drinks table.

Karl Marx Walking Tour

Jannis Kounellis

Wall of Coloured Glass (part of the larger installation, Coal Sculpture with Wall of Coloured Glass, 1999). A Greek artist working in Rome in the arte povere school, Jannis Kounellis also produced the below.

Glass

We went on a touristy architectural boat tour of Chicago focused mostly on the big glass and steel towers of downtown. I think because glass reflects its surroundings, it’s an easy way for an architect to say their building fits in its environment. Click on any of the images below to see them all enlarged.