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Nearly every piece of art work created in our studio is at some level a collaboration between my wife (Judy Rice), myself (Gary Rice), and the physical characteristics of the medium. In the beginning, we produced pieces and worked hard to make them conform to our vision. In time we found when we failed to attain our vision, the failure itself would send us off on a new tangent. Now we find it difficult to view anything as a failure. Rather we look at our work as an evolving continuum. Whether we are working in the warm studio with kiln formed glass, or the hot studio with off hand blowing we make every effort to let the glass describe itself. This perspective has brought us to places we might not have otherwise experienced. We have found the people experiencing our glass may have far more complex feeling about it than we may have had in the creation. We enjoy hearing peoples reactions, and many times incorporate those feelings into new work. Our work is not the mysterious, the reaction to the work however is another story. We work in a historic building with able assistants Lance Stroheker, Nick Philips and an assortment of dogs, cats, and neighboring artists. Artists
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