Page 5 - STARGAZE - Contemplating The Majestic, Matt Marga

INSPIRED BY THE STARS

Inspired by the stars and bedded into the glass, suspended
Milky Way, Matt Marga’ s Galassia inside, drawing parallels with the
collection brings together the beauty stars suspended in the night sky.
and mystery of the night sky, rewrit-
ten in glass and crystal. Marga trans- Each piece hovers in front of the
lates the fascinating yet relatively wall, adapting to its colour and play-
unknown phenomena of the Milky ing with a new dimension below the
Way with clear glass as the dark transparent glass surface. His per-
night sky, crystals acting as shining spective of the sky in the Italian Alps
stars in shimmering constellations. may not be the same as the smog-
gy and light polluted skies of Lon-
The 80 x 125 cm crystal and bronze don at night. But he likes to remind
glass pieces give a condensed us that the stars are glowing above
snapshot of the infinity suspended us, wherever in the world we are,
within the piece; intimate yet cos- whether we can see them or not.
mic, merging science with beauty
and mystery. The pieces are indi- The Galassia collection captures a
vidually created by hand: glass is sense of awe and wonder surround-
melted and shaped and crystals are ing the night sky, and encapsulates
sprinkled over the molten surface. how precious and beautiful it can be.
Once dry, the crystals appear em-

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