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#glass #Nataliya Vladychko #crops #sculpture #seeds
January 17, 2024
Grace Ebert
![a collection of small, stunted seedlings with green leaves on a white wooden platform](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/vladychko-5.jpg)
“Triticum” (2020), flame-shaped wooden and borosilicate glass platform, 26 x 27 centimeters. Photograph by Steven van Kooijk. All photos © Nataliya Vladychko, distributed with permission
“After firefighters saved London’s Pure Historical past Museum from German arsonists, Albizia silk tree seeds bloomed on their herbaceous leaves, free of 2 hundred years of dormancy by the exact mixture of flame and water,” writes Daniel Mason in an essay on flourishing city flora. The post-Blitz shock, which turned a beacon of hope amid the destruction of World Struggle II, confirmed that nature is extraordinarily resilient and constant to beginning anew.
This second can be one to which artist Nataliya Vladychko returns, as she sculpts slender specimens in glass, capturing each their delicacy and power in a single kind. Beginning with a drawing or watercolor rendering, Vladychko interprets the early phases of frequent crops like mung beans and wheat into delicate sculptures. The preliminary sketch determines the artist’s turns on the glass burner and permits her to “focus higher on the motion, plasticity and coloration composition that I really feel is suitable for a selected mannequin,” she says. “To me, small crops are impartial people that achieve their very own identification in the course of the making course of.”
Displayed on sheets or positioned in egg-shaped porcelain types, the tiny specimens sprout vivid roots, leaves and buds, coloured deep reds and purples. “My aim in making a germplasm is to not imitate nature, however to interpret the best way I see and expertise it,” she says. “Playfully balanced compositions of glass sprouts emerge that occupy their very own area. Admiring the wonder and energy of a plant will get my visible course of going!”
Discover an archive of Vladychko’s botanical drawings and sculptures on her web site.
![five white porcelain plates hang on the wall with small glass buds in the center](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/vladychko-.jpg)
“Vigna radiata” (2023), porcelain and flame-worked glass, 70 x 14 centimeters. Photograph by Hein van Liempd
![two images, both of bunched glass buds with twisted roots and green leaves](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/vladychko-3.jpg)
Left: “Dance” (2020), flame-shaped borosilicate glass, roughly 12 x four centimeters. Photograph by Steven van Kooijk. Proper: Element of “Vigna radiata” (2020), flame-shaped borosilicate glass, roughly 6 x three centimeters. by Steven van Kooijk
![two small glass seedlings with red berries and green leaves](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/vladychko-4.jpg)
Element “Dance” (2020), flame-shaped borosilicate glass, roughly 12 x four centimeters. Photograph by Steven van Kooijk.
![two images, both of small glass seedlings inside white porcelain nests](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/vladychko-6.jpg)
Left: “untitled” (2022), glass and flamed porcelain, 17 x 12 x 6 centimeters. Proper: “untitled” (2022), flame-worked glass and porcelain, 13 x eight x four centimeters. Photographs by Hein van Liempd
![five white porcelain plates hang on the wall with small glass buds in the center](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/vladychko-2.jpg)
“Wheat” (2022), porcelain and flame-worked glass, 70 x 14 centimeters. Photograph by Hein van Liempd
![small glass seedlings sprout from fibrous roots on a white background](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/vladychko-8.jpg)
“Vigna radiata” (2020), flame-shaped borosilicate glass, 60 x 50 centimeters. Photograph by Steven van Kooijk
![a worn hand-bound book with a red ribbon in the center and italics covering the pages. a cutout reveals a tiny glass seedling nestled within the pages](https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/vladychko-10.jpg)
“Me” (2021), glass with flame, drawing and portray, laser lower, hand sure ebook, 21 x 18 x 5 centimeters. Photograph taken by the artist
#glass #Nataliya Vladychko #crops #sculpture #seeds
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