Felix Saturn

When invited to create work for Molten Tongues – an exhibition bringing together 28 national and international contemporary artists exploring fire as a point of departure in their practices – Felix drew on her background in stained glass, merging it with the rich material and conceptual possibilities of implementing hot glass elements to develop her work Scrying Field.

We worked with Felix over several prototyping sessions experimenting with different colours and methods to achieve just the right level of reduction and the precise form needed for assembly, the project took on new resonance when we used Gaffer lustre black – a glass composition no longer in production. This now-rare colour produces a shifting surface of deep blues and metallic sheen, threaded with amber undertones.

As light changes and the viewer moves around the space to view the work, the field of rondels bends and distorts – an optical and conceptual gesture