Mezza Forma - Pouring Jug

To jog your memory the Mezza Forma series was created byhammering steel moulds. It was a way to step outside of the glassblowing studioand work in a seperate state of mind. It used a certain ability with the art ofhammering steel sheets into mould forms and the illustrative outline of theforms is a result of the metal pulling out of shape as I worked on one side itwould pull the other, constantly influenced. The series is characterised by itsdappled ice like surface and wavering lip lines

Mezza Forma Series

The Mezza Forma series emerges from a shift away from theimmediacy of the hot shop and into the slower, more reflective process ofshaping steel. Each mould is hand-hammered from sheet metal—formed not throughprecision, but through an intuitive push and pull. As one area is worked,another distorts; the form is never fixed, but constantly responding. Thistension is carried directly into the glass.

The resulting vessels hold the memory of that process. Theirsurfaces are softly dappled—almost ice-like—while their lip lines waver anddrift, resisting the clean symmetry of traditional blown forms. What appearsdelicate is in fact the trace of force: the translation of hammered steel intomolten glass.

Mezza Forma sits between control and surrender. It reflectsa deliberate step outside the conventions of glassblowing, using the languageof another material to disrupt and reshape it. Each piece is both a functionalobject and a record of its own making—an outline drawn not by design, but bypressure, movement, and response.