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<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Creating bottles with sculptures inside \u2013 or in other words, the synthesis of free form glass-making and one functional level \u2013 has fascinated me since my schooldays at the vocational college for glass blowing. This fascination does not stem from an ambition to create a functional object, but rather from the technical challenge of shaping a product with multiple layers so that the viewer perceives the object as a whole, complete unit.<\/p>\n My bottles and the sculptures inside are usually commissioned and therefore the customers determines the theme. To design the sculpture, I start with a rough sketch. Then I freely shape the sculpture with solid glass rods using a hand burner. Once the glass object has the desired proportion, it is kiln annealed for a few hours.<\/p>\n The shape of the finished sculpture inside the bottle determines the form of the bottle. The bottle is blown in a separate process, usually at the lathe. After the glass sculpture has cooled down, I slide it into the bottle through the open bottom and seal it from the outside with various hand burners. This closing of the bottle base at 2,000\u00b0C is the final act in the manufacturing process of a bottle with a sculpture inside. <\/p>\n At school I started with my first experiments of melting small bottles of about 10 cm. Year after year I was able to increase the object size and now I can produce bottles of more than 1 m (3.2 feet) in length and with detailed sculptures inside.<\/p>\n The bottles with sculptures inside have, rather unintentionally, become a hallmark of my glass work. The bottle archive shows pieces of work that I have photographed and which are already over 15 years old (so please excuse the poor picture quality). Some large-sized “super-size bottles” are presented in a more professional quality in a separate block.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PRODUCTS> BOTTLES > BOTTLE HISTORY Creating bottles with sculptures inside \u2013 or in other words, the synthesis of free form glass-making and one functional level \u2013 has fascinated me since my schooldays at the vocational college for glass blowing. This fascination does not stem from an ambition to create a functional object, but rather from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2527","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weinmayer.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weinmayer.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weinmayer.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weinmayer.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weinmayer.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weinmayer.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/weinmayer.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2527\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weinmayer.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The difficulty of this melting technique lies primarily in mastering the great tensions of the glass, especially during the sealing process. Achieving a balance between the glass sculpture, the bottle size and the shape of the bottle is obviously another challenge.<\/p>\n