The individual handmade bead and its surface are central concerns in bold, almost psychedelic colored clay examples by Billie Tannen and Robert Nielsen, and in luminous glass examples by Rosita Walsh.
On top of ions lixiviation and weathering of the glass, examples of heat degraded smalt are reported in wall paintings affected by fire [103].
Sugar can, as we shall see later, be heated to a liquid phase and then spun and cooled quickly to form a glass: examples of spun glass foods include candy floss.
One glass case, for example, is filled with broken earrings, a reminder that the mothers of many young Mexican soldiers insisted on going to war with them so they could provide succor to their sons near the front lines.
The blown glass, for example, was made in Venice and the glazed terracotta plaques in Florence.
Early designs of cloaks used finely-structured sheets of materials that behave differently to glass, for example, by bending light the wrong way.
Switzerland in particular has splendid memorials in stained glass; for example, the Protestant cathedral in Bern has windows that are aflame with glorious heraldic colours.
He has exploited new technologies in glass, for example, to develop a vocabulary of exposure, veiling, reflection, dissolution, solid and void and gradations on the spectrum from the familiar to the unknown.
He teases the soccer-loving Belgians in "Penalty II" (1992), replacing the net of a soccer goal with stained glass, an example of the fragile kitsch with an aura of sanctity found in quite a few Belgian households.
He was also able to take a photograph of a latent fingerprint (from a wine glass, for example) and use it to make a gelatin finger that fooled scanners 80% of the time as well.
