Winner of The Glass Prize 2017 | Titia Felderhof with Utopia

Utopia

The Glass Prize is run by Warm Glass UK each year to inspire innovation in kiln formed glass and to encourage Glass Artists throughout the world to share their work and express their passion.
The prize in this category is £115 of Warm Glass UK Gift Vouchers. Entries into this category were judged by Hungarian Glass Artist and Winner of The Glass Prize 2016 'Other Glass' category, Peter Borkovics. We are very grateful for Peter's input and support. Peter's work can be viewed here.  All entries in this category used glass other than Bullseye Glass.
Peter chose two joint winners for 2017:
Titia Felderhof (Artistic Ability)
Dawid Stroyny (Technical Ability)

About Utopia
I have a fascination for the phenomenon that a thought, such as an idea, a development, evolution, invention, design, develops on one side of the world and at the same time also on the "other" side of the world. There must be a perceptible or human connection.
There are enough theories about this phenomenon. What does it lead to? Is it our DNA structure, is it a source, is it a control by a higher power, is it an energy stream?
 
Fact is: IT IS REAL! Energy is an interaction between the smallest particles. The quantum theory.  
My Utopia is an attempt to imagine this phenomenon in its own way. The rotating shapes are separate worlds in a universe. They run in a network of energy, movement through motion.
When the worlds are in balance, there is a bridge, a continuous line. The movement is needed to find that bridge. I want to live in a world that is in motion and constant development. I'm not looking for a fixed place where everything is perfect. I do not believe that. Stagnation means decline. Think about how you’d like turning the shape at the bottom left (it stands still). Movement creates new ideas, opportunities, inspiration.

Titia Felderhof