Well…this year the theme is difficult. I simply enjoy that I consider myself an Artist. I don’t have any doubts that my work is Glass Art. If you ask me where else, beyond the glass art world, it can fit? I don’t have an answer. It just fits well in the Glass Art World. “That my work is “Art” is something discussible and a lot of people would not agree with it…but I don’t lie and it is not discussible if I say that it is Glass Art. The problem is that I do what I do because of glass. It was Glass that sent me into the Art World. If I was not a Glass Artist I really would not make any Art, except maybe for the “Culinary Arts”. Maybe if I would dedicate the amount of hours I give to Glass I could make art with figs and sugar? In truth, I always felt a sort of fear to talk about my Art. My way of seeing things and my culture does not include a complete understanding about Contemporary Art. Nothing compares with the explosively intense feelings I experience when viewing a show of Glass Art…. what happens inside me in front of a piece of Bertil Vallien or what I felt in Bergamo years ago walking in between Libensky sculptures…for sure their ART is SUBLIME and Transcendental ART and they used Glass… I also feel excited visiting the Corning Museum…those intense emotions I do not experience at any contemporary art museum.
- Miriam Di Fiore, 2014
40.25 x 27 x 7.5” Fused glass and mixed media
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L’Atessa: The Wait - 2014
Miriam Di Fiore
My pieces have multiple ingredients. For sure I “paint” but I love to do it ONLY with glass. Also, some of my objects could be considered sculpture….but the concepts and the ideas I want to express, I feel, can be done only through glass. Glass is my material; I don’t care much if it is ART. Everything I do has to be “well done” from the point of view of Glass. So… it is difficult to be honest and objectives with one’s self…. where my work can fit beyond the Glass community? My instinctive answer could be…nowhere…but I confess - I hope to be wrong.