Yamano's technical mastery and innovations owe much to his study of traditional metalwork: Yamano rolls thickly blown hot glass over silver leaf to fuse it. He then etches the surface with images -- most often his trademark fish and mountains. He then plates the blown vessel with hot sculpted and cold-worked glass elements. The resulting pieces are complicated and richly subtle.
"A fish, like a tuna or mackeral, has to swim for its entire life, otherwise it will die. So, I think of myself as the fish. I have to keep doing, keep working, keep going, keep jumping into life."
-Hiroshi Yamano
HIroshi Yamano at Traver Gallery
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