{"id":3492,"date":"2016-01-30T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2016-01-30T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T15:00:55","slug":"artist-kiva-ford-utilizes-scientific-glassblowing-techniques-to-create-unusual-glass-sculptures-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/artist-kiva-ford-utilizes-scientific-glassblowing-techniques-to-create-unusual-glass-sculptures-colossal\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Kiva Ford Utilizes Scientific Glassblowing Techniques to Create Unusual Glass Sculptures | Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/01\/kiva-ford-glass\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kiva-3.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By day, Virgina-based glass artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kivaford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kiva Ford<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2015\/05\/miniature-glass-kiva-ford\/\">previously<\/a>) fabricates one-of-a-kind glass instruments designed for special applications in scientific laboratories. By night, he retires to his home art studio where he utilizes his vast skillset to create curious glass vessels, miniatures, goblets, and other unusual creations working entirely by hand. Ford says his artistic practice is heavily inspired by his interests in mythology, history, and science.<\/p>\n<p>Ford\u2019s artistic observations of the natural world have begun to merge directly with his scientific glassblowing abilities in a number of new hybrid pieces. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kivafordglass\/photos\/pb.53958299857.-2207520000.1454084339.\/10152786260784858\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Metamorphosis<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/8Tev_JFPfE\/?taken-by=kivafordglass\" target=\"_blank\">Metamorphosis II<\/a>, we see the sequence of a caterpillar morphing into a butterfly and an egg turning into a frog, all seamlessly encapsulated by handmade glass instruments, evoking the mystery of a ship in a bottle.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow more of Ford\u2019s work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kivafordglass\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and he sells hundreds of glass objects\u2014mostly miniatures\u2014through his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/kivaford\" target=\"_blank\">Etsy shop<\/a>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/hifructose.com\/2016\/01\/27\/kiva-fords-glassblown-sculptures-merge-art-and-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hi-Fructose<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/01\/kiva-ford-glass\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/kiva-1.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/01\/kiva-ford-glass\/\">Artist Kiva Ford Utilizes Scientific Glassblowing Techniques to Create Unusual Glass Sculptures | Colossal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By day, Virgina-based glass artist Kiva Ford (previously) fabricates one-of-a-kind glass instruments designed for special applications in scientific laboratories. By night, he retires to his home art studio where he utilizes his vast skillset to create curious glass vessels, miniatures, goblets, and other unusual creations working entirely by hand. Ford says his artistic practice is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Uk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}