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Lynn M. Griffis

You must give birth to your images.
  They are the future waiting to be born.
   Fear not the strangeness you feel.
  The future must enter you
    long before it happens.
  Just wait for the birth,
    for the hour of new clarity.
            -Rainer Maria Rilke
       
I have loved glass for as long as I can remember.  As a small child I was mesmerized and transported by the dancing colors in the stained glass windows in our church.

For me, glass is a metaphor for life.  It’s richly colored components bring forth a wellspring of sacred creative vision and hope.  It is fragile and strong, dynamic, enduring and alive. Just as glass begins as fragments containing sand transformed through fire into a rigid liquid cooled into a polished wholeness, we humans also experience a similar healing metamorphosis through the ancient and sacred life journey of fracture, fire and faith.

And, with glass, as in life, there is an illusion of control but little certainty within vast amounts of potential. You strive for perfection…
and learn to accept the unexpected as compelling creative transformation.

Handcrafting glass art is my deep prayer for spiritual healing, connection, wholeness and the reclamation of joy through life’s fires.
 
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About the Artist

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Lynn M. Griffis is a farmer’s daughter from a small Nebraska town. She currently resides in Lexington, KY. Her previous career was in training, marketing, public relations, environmental water education and ministry. Although Lynn began her glass art career with stained glass, her passion and most recent training is in kiln-formed and cold-worked glass art.   Read more...