Mezza Forma - Vase

To jog your memory the Mezza Forma series was created by hammering steel moulds. It was a way to step outside of the glassblowing studio and work in a seperate state of mind. It used a certain ability with the art of hammering steel sheets into mould forms and the illustrative outline of the forms is a result of the metal pulling out of shape as I worked on one side it would pull the other, constantly influenced. The series is characterised by its dappled ice like surface and wavering lip lines

Mezza Forma Series

The Mezza Forma series emerges from a shift away from the immediacy of the hot shop and into the slower, more reflective process of shaping steel. Each mould is hand-hammered from sheet metal—formed not through precision, but through an intuitive push and pull. As one area is worked, another distorts; the form is never fixed, but constantly responding. This tension is carried directly into the glass.

The resulting vessels hold the memory of that process. Their surfaces are softly dappled—almost ice-like—while their lip lines waver and drift, resisting the clean symmetry of traditional blown forms. What appears delicate is in fact the trace of force: the translation of hammered steel into molten glass.

Mezza Forma sits between control and surrender. It reflects a deliberate step outside the conventions of glassblowing, using the language of another material to disrupt and reshape it. Each piece is both a functional object and a record of its own making—an outline drawn not by design, but by pressure, movement, and response.