Rainforest Foglio

From Patchen's 'Foglio' series, this flattened vessel was created through the difficult technique called cane and murrine, which involves combining rods of colored glass with highly-patterned glass tiles then fusing them together to construct a glass bubble all before and blowing the final shape.

This Foglio is composed with assorted stripes in the palette of what you would encounter on a hike in a rainforest. Shades of greens, sky blue, marigold, orange and lavender harmonize and refract with windows in transparent greens and blues. Random murrine patterns disrupt the stripes and provide vertical accents. After the patterns are applied to the glass, this Foglio is double-encased in clear glass for great depth, optics and stability.

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