The Thousands

Kristel Britcher works in glass. I can’t say I ever really understood why anyone would work primarily in glass until I saw it being done. There are several different ways of forming glass that I don’t understand, the most exciting of which is glass blowing. Glass blowing is shockingly beautiful to watch. Everyone who does it is pleasingly robust because they spend all their time throwing and blowing shiny, soft, molten lumps of glass into perfect bubbles. Even when they fuck it up it’s beautiful. Needless to say, it’s labour-intensive and highly expensive. Which makes it even more exciting.

Process isn’t necessarily validation – but I certainly feel like glass is a whole lot more interesting now I’ve seen at least one of the ways it can be formed. Rani Rose also works in glass – but the "web/constellation" that she is presenting on Sunday hasn’t been blown. It’s made using some other glass technique I don’t get. Rose’s installation has been specially designed for Seedling and has something to do with spiders and chaos theory. Which quite frankly sounds mystifying enough to make me want to come. And finally – and this doesn’t really fit in with my desperate attempt for a neat segue – Humna Mustafa is undertaking a prayer performance work in the nearby creek bed.