Möbius Chandelier

'Möbius Chandelier' is a composition of eight handmade, glass, möbius strips, each suspended off the wall via acrylic pins, one dominant light source spreads across the work illuminating the complex caustics within.

At the core of my work lies the desire to produce sculptural forms, optics, and large-scale installations that afford the unique qualities of glass a stage to perform and demonstrate its exquisite materiality and phenomenology.

The mobius strip is a fascinating addition to my oeuvre in which I repeatedly navigate, an ever-expanding taxonomy of glass components that possess conceptual intrigue and physically engage volume in space.

To create these mobius strips I worked with a skilled team of five. Hot glass was incrementally gathered on a blowpipe determining the final scale of the form. The glass was heated, inflated and shaped until it reached it's optimum size, I then rolled the air out of the form to create a solid strip. The strip was again heated, stretched, grabbed at one end to enable us to give a half turn and reattach the strip to the blowpipe. Now the mobius strip is in place, the form is transferred onto a solid rod and the seam line titivated.