{"id":692,"date":"2024-08-26T12:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tweez.me\/?p=692"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:02:50","slug":"andrea-spencers-painstakingly-layered-glass-sculptures-intertwine-tendrils-of-seaweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tweez.me\/index.php\/2024\/08\/26\/andrea-spencers-painstakingly-layered-glass-sculptures-intertwine-tendrils-of-seaweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Spencer\u2019s Painstakingly Layered Glass Sculptures Intertwine Tendrils of Seaweed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While a seaweed known as bladderwrack might not sound like something you’d want to eat, the unique kelp is in fact quite tasty and gets its name from small air pockets in its leaves akin to tiny bladders. For glass artist Andrea Spencer<\/a>, the tendrils, bulbs, fronds, and combinations of organisms provide the starting point for an ongoing series of elegant sculptures.<\/p>\n Just inland of the rugged North Antrim coastline in Northern Ireland, Spencer and her husband, glassblower Scott Benefield<\/a>, work in studios set up in outbuildings of a former farm. “My process usually starts with collecting or recalling something seen or found in the natural world,” Spencer says. “This becomes a point of departure, and I proceed by manipulating and transforming the material: creating, assembling, and arranging forms.” Back in her studio, she displays the items she’s collected by suspending or pinning them into layered compositions and capturing them in drawings or glass.<\/p>\n