What type of Glass blowing does Thom use to make his art?
Thom’s Stunning glass is a hybrid of technical virtuosity tempered by a deft personal touch. The techniques Thorn uses are all derived from scientific glassblowing – not blowing molten glass bubbles over a raging furnace, but molding smaller pieces of glass with his breath and hands using an adjustable handheld flame or a stationary torch. While most scientific glass blowers manufacture technical product such as test tubes, beakers, or coiling, Thorn utilizes these same methods to produce smaller, precisely scaled, truly subtle pieces that could never be equaled by furnace blown work. Another handicap for furnace glassblowers is the limit of different parts in their pieces; though furnace hand blown vases, glasses and bowls are beautiful, they must be placed in ovens at once and little can be added to them. Scientific glassblowing gives Thom a little more time to breathe (pardon the expression) because it allows successive firing of different parts of a work. Then the pieces can be int
