Machine Hands

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My sister collects butterflies, you name it and she probably has it when it comes to them. She has butterfly wallpaper, little ceramic sculptures of butterflies, books, little dead ones pined up for display, and of course little glass sculptures all over. About a month ago I was in search of a new butterfly to give to my sister for her birthday. I found myself in this little shop in of all places main street Disneyland. This little Asian man was behind the counter holding these clear rods of glass with this beautiful blue flame shooting out strongly from in front of him. He was melting and manipulating the glass that he had in his hand to look like a dolphin, it was one of the most amazing things that I have ever seen in my life before.

This story is why I picked Hans-Godo Frabel to do my paper on. Hans-Godo Frabel is a very well known Torch artist; in his time he was known as one of the founders of modern torch-work art in America. However he didn't always live here.

Born in Germany during the Second World War, Fra


After reading up on Hans-godo for a while and looking at his work I really started to like and appreciate what he was doing. One particular piece of Frabels that struck me as particularly nice was "Hammer and Nails". Hammer and Nails went on a tour in 1979 and exhibited over a period of several years in leading museums through out the world. This piece visited places like the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of fine Arts in Washington (DC), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum on San Francisco. The realistic view of the hammer in half swing is very powerful, and who is to say that it wouldn't work. If a steel hammer can hammer steel nails than shouldn't a glass hammer be able to hammer glass nails?

Of these projects my favorite was "Rods and Balls", a very symmetrical project combining icicle like connected rods with clear spheres positioned very carefully to stand on its own.(as seen on front).

bel was brought up in one of the harshest environments in the world at the time. Frab

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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