The Glassblower of Murano
On the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon, master glassblower Cesare Toffolo works with molten glass at nearly two thousand degrees. What astonishes visitors...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18.
On the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon, master glassblower Cesare Toffolo works with molten glass at nearly two thousand degrees. What astonishes visitors is not the heat but the intimacy. Before he ever touches the blowpipe, Cesare already sees the finished vessel in his mind — every curve, every ridge, every place where the light will catch and scatter.…
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