bells bells bells bellls

Time passes evaporating. irretrievable as the snails trail.

the next few posts will attempt to catch up with time....

here's an exciting event near utrecht.
the opening of Bernard Hessen's Toren...a bell tower conisting of hundreds of blown glass sphere's as well as many many lead crystal tuned bells.
yes tuned!! he worked with a bronze bell foundry to test resonances and forms as well as different clappers and mechanisms for sounding.
the cool thing is this project started at Vrij Glas where Durk melted a range of concentrations of lead crystal from 5% to full lead crystal to experiment with resonance and sound quality...one endeavor that fits in to the mission of Vrij Glas.
the bells were finally produced at the leerdam glass factory with a team of czech glassblowers from Petr Novotny's Factory: Ajeto, where the sphere's were all produced.
Congratulations Bernard!!