Stretching, 10 x 5 x 5 inches, blown glass shell with crackle glaze. W
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WBM february 2020
ORKING with glass is
certainly a challenge, but
Bunting says he loves
that challenge.
“The first thing you
learn to make is usually a paperweight or a
small round object,” he says. “But it’s such a
long learning curve, it usually takes at least
a year. Glassblowing is all about heat, gravity,
and centrifugal force. It takes a long time to
learn, and you never stop learning.”
Bunting says if he ever won the lottery, he
would open a studio of his own. It would
be great to help guide people through the
learning curve.
“Most people ask me how long it took me
to make that conch shell,” he says, “and I tell
them ‘Well, It took me 24 years … and 15
minutes.’”
His career as a performer and his career
as a glassblower are not separate, but two
parts of a long, beautiful, and winding path
as an artist.
“As a singer, actor, dancer, and director for
the last four decades, glass blowing fits as a
theatrical experience,” he says.
EEK, 9 x 7 x 7 inches, blown glass vase with crackle glaze.