Making the individual pieces continued.
Here air is blown through the rod to expand the size of the piece.
Here Tommy Lockart can be seen expanding one of the 150 pieces - nearing its final shape. You can see the expanding color also, but the color you see when the piece is hot is much different from when the piece is cooled.
More shaping with "wet" newspaper. You can almost feel the heat as you see the steam of burning paper. You can also begin to see the green color as it cools at one end. But you wouldn't want to touch it.
The work has to be kept hot until it is finished. Here Lockart puts the piece back in the blast furnace to keep the glass in motion - still workable.
Here we see one of the 150 pieces that will be cut in half - the long way - to make the 300 piece that will make up "Flo". The color is not solid, but gives a watery look.
Here we see a layout of some of the finished pieces that have been cut and numbered to show where they will go in the finished work. Each piece will be attached to the frame at different heights to give the sense of motion.
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