Water

It is as singular as fascinating that water, to which we owe all
forms of life, is transparent and shapeless except when it is
forced by external circumstances. Its essence is fluid, flimsy
and able to transform thanks to a metamorphosis prompted by
the dynamics of heat and fire.
Water changes state by vaporizing in the air and becoming haze,
clouds and atmosphere. Conversely, when the heat subsides,
it turns into crystal, it solidifies into ice. The circumstances
of this transition generate ethereal and impalpable essences
or forms solidified in space and time.
Glass is a mineral substance fixed by the craftsman’s work in the
crystalline form, in a blocked essence. As for water, fire transforms
its state by fusing the material of which it is made of, that is silica
dioxide and oxides; when it cools it solidifies, maintaining its
transparency intact. Such change opens up the possibility for the
craftsman to manually forge an object, materialize an idea, recreate
an atmosphere.
The glass works shown here bear witness to his vital relationship
between natural forces and human thinking. Homo faber is
therefore granted a free creative action which, evoking by analogy
the fluidity and clarity of water, can satisfy the needs of both
functions and poetry.