James Minson is an Australian artist and he created the cloud mobile above. It took a lot out of him physically. At a gallery show in 2008, the mobile which hangs on a stainless steel umbrella,
was hung on a cable not able to take the weight and it crashed to the floor. At the same gallery, he had a blue chandelier which a very tall man walked straight into, crash. The perils of being a glass artist.
So now we have the silver cloud mobile with what, I presume, are glass raindrops.
But this has to be my favourite, a jelly fish chandelier. When I win the big Lotto and I have my house on the cliff overlooking Bass Strait, with the giant windows, I will have jelly fish chandeliers in every room. James also makes perfume bottles but nothing went to my heart like this chandelier.
The clouds look like baroque pearls. Truly beautiful. What I would give for the mind to dream such things up and the skill to create them. An arm and a leg seem a fair trade.
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Thank you for sharing these beauties.
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EC, I was thinking if they were that heavy, having them move as a mobile would take something more than a slight breeze. Another glassblower said that this is the only art that comes into being by the breath of the artist.
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I skipped the diamond planet and went straight to the star being swallowed by the black hole.