Ellipse
Vase
2014
Ellipse is a two-colour vase. It takes the name from the elliptical cross-section of the graft.
The main inspiration for this piece comes from the clouds. The work answers the designer’s need to catch such a beautiful moment when a cloud is forming. Trevisan used the light – emphasizing or diminishing the light absorption of the glass- to point out this connection, coming to process the object that she created as an actual cloud with her shadows, atmospheres and different perceptive gradients.
Small protrusions decorate the upper part of the vase. Instead, the lower part is cold-finished using slight grinding. The vase, rising from the bottom to the top, dematerializes itself and the bubbles are a manifestation of this gradual evaporation. Some of them are metaphorically popped by the skilful hand of the master glassmaker, creating tiny holes that allow you to insert the flowers in the vase from unusual and unique positions, stepping out from the classical canons.
Ellipse won the European Glass Experience international competition prize in 2015.
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Process
Glass, just like weather can evolve, change its form. There is nothing so transitory as a few particles of moisture in the form of a cloud.
People have always had a strong metaphysical connection to clouds and, through time, have created myths and meanings around them.
Ellipse’s dematerialization from the bottom to the top catches the beautiful moment when a cloud forms. Trevisan likes the temporary aspect of the glass material. Glass is malleable for only a few minutes. Clouds are there for a few seconds before they fall apart again. The work is really about the idea of a cloud inside a space and what people project on it. By putting a cloud indoors, you change the context, and it will seem perfectly natural and poetic to insert some flowers in it.