The deft and the quick...
Glass blowers must be highly skilled to take molten glass and fashion it into something useful and/or beautiful before the glass cools.
Imagine blowing too hard down the cylinder that delivers the breath into the molten glass. One could easily blow everything out of proportion, overdo it.
Temperature dynamics are important in Leo 9. When glass is cool, it is solid... relatively speaking... and very susceptible to breaking and shattering. Everyone has received a splinter or two of broken glass in their day. Not fun.
When hot, glass becomes a malleable substance receptive to shape and fashioning. Clearly there are degrees of artistry at all junctures of glass work.
The key theme in Leo 9 lies in the out-breath. One breathes life into something. Sounds much like artificial respiration doesn't it?
And while the challenge and artistry of it is to breathe just right, it is also a project that can be scrapped and started again in the same way broken glass can be reheated and shaped anew.
Blain Bovee
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