9. Marine Julie

 For the exhibition Handmade X* with love, I commissioned the French artist Marine Julie whose large-scale,  line-drawn gestural murals depict scenes of amorphous beings in rapture like this one: 


   


...to work at a different scale and within a different tradition with Rückl, the (traditional) Czech crystal and glass manufacturer, and legacy brand resulting in this work:  




Title, Medium, 220 x 300mm


Hand etching in crystal is done by a single craftperson at the factory, and Marine continues to collaborate with Ruckl on special art editions for the brand: