Cadmium, colors, art, and travels

Just returned from a trip to Corning, NY where I learned a lot about glass.

First I will connect a bit of this information to my interest in the

 Element, Cadmium.

Next April, a show titled Radical Elements will open. 40 artists 

chose to create a 36 by 22 inch art work based on one single element.

I chose Cadmium.

 We will not be publishing our entire work before the exhibit opens

but can display a detail of the work. Before researching Cadmium

all I knew of the name was from the paint I had been using for years.

The detail you see above uses actual acrylic paint thickly applied 

and flowing from embroidered tubes onto black denim.

 Glass by Frederick Carder at the Carder Gallery, 

part of the Corning Museum

 The lecturer told us that so much Cadmium had been used to 

create this rich red color that it weakens the glass.

Yellow is another color using Cadmium in this bright opaque glass.

There was so much more to see in ancient, historic, and contemporary glass

I could have stayed for a week. 

I did enjoy connecting my element 

of Cadmium to these colorful historic glass pieces.