Ballet fascinated me as a kid. The ballerinas appeared light as a feather as they flew through the air—I was mesmerized. I never became a ballerina, but I found and felt ballet when I started glassblowing—the intricacies, precise, and delicate movements required a silent strength similar to a ballerina. My dance in the hot shop in coordination with the other glassblowers reminded me of the movements of the ballets I loved to watch. I felt ballet through every gather, heat, mold, and reheat.
Riffing off of my love of Bauhaus designers and the school’s principals, I designed these vases to combine and exalt my interest in ballet with my newly developed skills in glassblowing. The Triadisches Vases are modeled after costumes from Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadisches Ballett. The fluidity of molten glass mirrored that of ballerinas, and their controlled movements mirrored mine while shaping the glass. The idea to translate these costumes into vases served to fulfill my budding interest in floral design and serves a relic of the time I most felt like a ballerina.

For studio apotroes. Vase prototypes inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett