Welcome To Soma

I've been going to glass club at Notre Dame for the past couple of semesters, where I spend my time making glass beads/lampworking. The beads with a spiral pattern are gravity beads; when making these one lets the glass slump to the bottom and then spins the mandrel, letting gravity drag the glass around the mandrel. The brown pendant is my first, the orange my second.

Back in Marquette, MI, I often went to the local stained glass studio to work. The small butterflies are around three inches, the medium butterflies around 4 1/2, and the large ones around 5 1/2. The large star pattern is around a foot tall, if I remember correctly. Only the icosahedron (4 1/2 inches, white stained glass) was created at Notre Dame.