Broken glass on the sidewalk creates beauty in irregularity. Clear blue lined edges on rough dirty asphalt - kind of great.

Ice, glass, pink lemonade

Personal objects at home in Brooklyn - July, 2010

Broken black glass and squashed coffee cup, curbside in Red Hook, Brooklyn, 2010.

A painted glass goose - an example of Symbolist art. This was on display at the Corning Museum of Glass. The goose is a detail from a larger free-standing painted glass screen, depicting all kinds of beautiful elements in nature and in the imagination. It is a piece from the Romantic period in art and literature from the 1890’s. The description next to the piece read, “Symbolist artists were interested in the primitive and exotic. They explored dream states and unusual forms of spiritualism. These artists tried to depict emotions, sensations, and other aspects of the non-visible world. Their interest in the intangible influenced the development of abstraction in 20th-century art.”

I am into that..

More gorgeous from the Corning Museum of Glass, artist unknown.

Glass by Dominick Labino (American, 1910-1987)

Emergence Series, 1980

Hot-worked glass, air traps, internal veiling

Viewed at the Corning Museum of Glass

Glass as interpreted by Michael Pavlik (Czech, b. 1941)

Vajra Transmutation #1927, 1988

Cast glass, cut, acid-etched, ground, bonded

seen at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY

droplets of water on washed glass