Fragments of glass can be found all over the city of Detroit in a variety of sizes, colors, and glass types making it difficult to recapture into a sustainable lifecycle for future use. To tackle this issue, glass techniques were experimented with to develop found glass as a pigment medium for creative purposes. A combination of glass fusing and devitrification is used to develop a painting technique.
Fragment explores both the beauty and complication material recycling, upcycling, and practiced color theory.
A final display limited to a 3' x 3' x 3' framework was built to present final outcomes as well as all explorations and processes that were trialed along the way.
Larger fragments do not color mix or bond strongly
