While at the Museum of Art and Design on Sunday, Charlotte and I also came up one the work of Ayala Serfaty. When we were exploring the floor of the museum that was highlighting various pieces of their collection her work was up on the wall as lighting and we were immediately drawn to its warm glow, forgetting, for a moment, the other works in the room.
Ayala’s design uses a construction method I have never seen before and one that Charlotte and I discussed but couldn’t fully identify while looking at her work.
Obviously she is inspired by nature. These works to me look not only like cocoons and crysallis’ but also ice formations.
They’re constructed in what she refers to as Soma – a network of 2mm glass filaments from Empoli, Italy.
They’re fused together in a web of organic, irregular patterns from what I can tell – they’re also in various colors.
To me, this looks like varicose veins, oddly biological out of context.
Many of her designs incorporate a ceramic base of some form or another — this looks like an iceberg exploded out of a rock!
The work we saw was like the above, except wall mounted — it was about 5 feet x 3 feet I’d say and we got up against the wall to try to figure out how it worked!
After the glass frames are made it appears they are sprayed with a polymer membrane that allows the light to come through along with the color of the glass. Really beautiful idea and creations from Ayala’s studio, Aqua Creations, in Tel Aviv.
Marnie
Mmmm – gorgeous work! The penultimate photo reminds me of seeing intracloud lightning. Thanks for sharing.