enad.tsinghua.edu.cn , February 7, 2021
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Kathleen Elliot from Ohio, USA is celebrated for her sculptures of lampwork plants, and has recently started to make multimedia and collage works. In 2003, Elliot began to make a series of glass sculptures Natural Plants based on such plant forms as branches and leaves. In 2007, she started to create the Imaginary Botanicals series, focusing on the discovered species and the imaginary ones created by mixing.
In this event, Kathleen Elliot showed online how to make her personal series of works with lampwork glass. She praised the beauty of nature by creating glass sculptures with natural themes, enticing people out of the confines of ordinary realities. Elliot conveyed to the audience the following message, "I usually use glass tubes and colored glass rods to create lampwork art. Every day, we are so busy and life seems so pressing. The existence of nature can remind us that we actually belong to a world that is mysterious and far greater."