My favorite thing in life is finding hidden treasures. I love it when I find someone's little illustration of a door hidden in the corner of a hallway, or when, in a filthy porter potty on the side of the highway, I find the end of a toilet paper roll folded up the way it is done in hotels. I love the idea that someone put effort into a small gesture knowing full well it will more than likely go unnoticed.
So much art is planned out, fine tuned, lit properly, propped up, and put out of reach. This is especially true with glass. I grew tired of art behind walls and decided to try doing my own version of “public art.”
I hot sculpted a large group of cartoon style glass mushrooms and ground their bottoms flat. After coldworking, I threw all the mushrooms in a bag with a few sticks of epoxy and headed out into the world. Everywhere I went, I looked for little nooks and crannies that I could hide my treasure. I epoxied most of them down since I knew that if people found my mushrooms, they would want to take them. I felt that it should at least take some effort on their part to grab them, kind of like gluing a quarter to the ground.