Gil Reynolds – Artist Statement
“I love paradoxes and possibilities – embracing the juxtaposition of contrasting elements. Like an oriental carpet I juggle the geometric and biomorphic, the fractal rhythms of a tree branch and the ordered patterns of giant power pools marching across the landscape all find their way into my work. The challenge is to continue to find your own sense of aesthetic while keeping beauty around you.
Glass – a soft fluid malleable material when it is molten and a hard sharp rigid material when is it cold. It is a mere lens to manipulate light yet it can be a portal into your soul. A vitreous substance – it has no orderly crystalline structure, no melting or freezing point, it is unique, an anomaly. It is not like the other materials we live with day in and day out.
It is a connection to the ancients. The Egyptians showed me how to speak in glass. I talk to glass and it talks back. We have had this dialog for almost 40 years. It is just now starting to made sense. My love affair is as much with the process and the interaction as it is with the results for it is that act of creation that serves as the conduit to the special place.”
