My name is Forest & i am a professional Lamp Worker. I don’t just blow glass — I blow energy into the space around me. Every time I exhibit, I’m creating more than art. I’m creating connection. Fire, breath, and intention are just the medium — what I’m really shaping is human resonance.
Lamp working is the practice of melting glass over a open flame, the name originated from using a oil lamp with air being blown into the flame through a pipe or foot powered bellows.
My work is born from fire — a reflection of nature’s endless cycle: growth, decay, transformation, and return. Just as seasons turn and rivers carve stone, each flame-worked piece carries the rhythm of change. Lampworking, like nature, is a process of surrender and shaping — where time, pressure, and intention give rise to form. Within each composition, I weave elements of the wild — leaf, branch, mineral, and motion — capturing the quiet intelligence of the earth. These glassworks are echoes of that rhythm, frozen mid-metamorphosis, holding the tension between fragility and resilience, stillness and flow.
Glass is considered a amorphous solid, the use and creation with glass dates back atleast 5500 years ago , prehistoric people used obsidian (black volcanic glass) for a wide range of things like decorative beads , money & knives etc.
Borosilicate Glass
The type of glass I work with is borosilicate!
What makes borosilicate glass special is the boron oxide that is substituted for soda-lyme in the manufacturing process
There are many distinct differences between soda-lyme aka soft glass & borosilicate glass,
a few being,
•a COE( coefficient of Expansion) of 33
•Borosilicate melts at a higher temperature & takes more heat to maintain workability
•Borosilicate glass is scratch resistant
• Borosilicate glass is stronger than most
• Borosilicate glass is typically worked in a open flame torch rather than a furnace aka “Lamp working”.
