New Suns: Beth Lipman and Hiromi Takazawa

New Suns: Listening with Artists is an online publication of commissions, experiences, and stories from artists responding to life and the world around them. Each issue centers the curious-minded ways artists challenge and reconfigure established frameworks through play, conversation, reflection, and speculation. New Suns hopes to encourage learning from and listening with the individuals behind the art.

For Beth Lipman and Hiromi Takizawa, glass operates as a metaphorical container for the fluid nature of memory and human experience. It is also a material that holds endless fascination for them; it is malleable like clay, but with unique optical qualities that bring a broad range of associations to the various forms it can take. In the following conversation, the artists dig enthusiastically into the nitty gritty of this unique material and its place in their practices. In glass art, even a non-utilitarian work will often begin its life as a blown vessel before being shaped into something else, making the practice an opening for possibilities for form and meaning. In much the same way, the vessel here is a jumping off point into the endless possibilities of this material and all it can hold.

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