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JANICE VITKOVSKY

Glass Artist, SA, Australia

My work is concerned with perceptual experience and how we internalise and re-interpret our experiences. I am interested in how we process our movement within our physical surrounds and our emotional responses that make up our view of reality outside ourselves.

Within my work I aim to create abstract landscapes that reference a mapping of sorts, employing rhythmic and flowing patterns layered with colour that convey a sense of motion and fluidity. I like to work within the realm of the abstract as it relates to the intangible aspects of our experiences, the unseen but felt, describing the ephemeral quality of a thought or an emotion.

By working with the Murrine technique, I am able to achieve intricate flowing patterns that reference frequencies and depict motion. This is a process where a pattern can be built through the cross-section of the glass, and then by stretching it numerous times, the pattern is effectively miniaturised, travelling all the way through the glass. I combine this with fusing processes and cold finishing techniques to realise the finished piece.