Twenty-five years at the torch.

David is a master craftsman who has worked in borosilicate glass — the same formulation known as “Pyrex,” prized for how it takes the torch — since December 1999. That's more than 25 years turning raw rod and tube into finished, functional work, by hand, one gather at a time, out of his studio in Eugene, Oregon.

Hands working glass at the torch — Hands and flame — the craft close-up.

He came up in the American lampworking world of the late nineties, learning in an era that set the terms for how a generation of borosilicate artists came into the craft. He's kept at it steadily ever since — more than twenty-five years at the torch.

A piece taking shape mid-build, flame behind it — Mid-build, flame still going.

The techniques are the vocabulary. Implosion, where a gather of color is collapsed inward until it reads as a single burst. Wig-wag reversal, alternating bands of color twisted from reversal cane. Millefiori, thousand-flower cane worked into the piece. Fume work, silver and gold vapor fused into the glass so the color shifts with the light. And the deeper shelf of the tradition — switchback, Incalmo, Latticino, Murini — the cane and joining work that separates decades at the torch from years.

Macro detail of an implosion technique piece — Implosion detail — gold core, teal rim. The palette in one frame.

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