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Artist Statement:
Retirement brought Stan
Harmon’s passion into the
daylight. Finally quitting
his “day job”, after a career
with an environmental water
management company, Harmon
found himself able to devote
more time to artistic
endeavors that he had
previously crammed into late
night hours after everyone
else was asleep.
Following his dream to learn
to blow glass he enrolled at
the famous Penland School of
Craft in the North Carolina
mountains, quickly succumbing
to the addictive nature of
glass blowing. However,
blowing glass requires at
least one helper and that
wouldn’t fit into his new
schedule (which was no
schedule). Not to mention the
constant overhead involved in
firing a glass furnace 24/7.
While at Penland, Harmon was
introduced to the technique of
kiln-forming glass which being
taught in the next studio.
This proved to be the best of
both worlds, embracing the
serendipity of hot glass
creation and the advantages of
a flexible schedule because a
computer runs the kiln, taking
care of the most time
consuming aspects of creation.
Thus no helper was needed, no
outrageous gas bill to stress
about, and still reaping the
creative opportunities
afforded by hot glass.
Kiln-formed or fused glass ...
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