A Pain In My Glass

So, for a few weeks, I have been working at a glass sculpture studio in San Francisco, helping fabricate some amazing glass sculptures that are going to be installed at a new restaurant in SF.
So far, this has been a great experience, not at all a "pain in my glass"--but I just liked the title!
The sculpture is constructed of glass tubing which is "woven" together with wire filament--enough to hold it together, but not enough to distract you.
Then they are fired in a huge kiln, so that they warp and buckle, creating an undulating shape.
It is essentially several large glass rafts---but they will be hung from each of the four sides of a skylight, not drifting on an ocean.
And of course, all the engineering in the sculpture will make sure it is "earthquake safe"!
Check out the work here: Nikolas Weinstein Studios.
This will give you an idea of what the project is like, but, it is not exactly this.
You will just have to swing on by the Bar Agricole when it opens this spring!