"So now that I've cut a skillion skinny little strips of glass, how about I drive back up I-5 to my own hot shop and you guys finish up here?"
Is there no end to what this guy will put up with???
A few days ago I posted about how Dante Marioni endured a decade of blowing for us during Thanksgiving weekends from 1995 to 2004. Looking back, it’s hard to miss the similarity to the classic Failed Marriage dictum: “I love you. You’re perfect. Now change.
After watching Dante & Team blow dazzling forms in glass for ten years, what would you expect us to do?
We asked him to try kilnforming.
What a sport. He did.
Here’s a detail of one of his newbie projects:
And the whole nine yards…or 40 leaves…or seven feet (diameter):
2008…Dan “Hmmmm…What can we ask him to do next?”
December 3rd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Well my leaf project for Cancer Research looks awefully small all of a sudden , but it is heartfelt and a world project of “Drifting Leaves” floating in from all over the world. Wish Dante could float one over to us toooo! Wishful thinking I know but throwing the idea out there. Smiling now!! Leslie Rowe-Israelson