Crystal Vase, Mini, Glacier
A cool blue grey with a green cast, the color of glacier ice where it runs thick. The thinner crystals turn clear at the edges and the dense ones go deep slate.
Grown, not cut. Isaac Monte dissolves five to seven minerals in boiling water in a large metal tank, suspends a glass form in the solution and lets the tank cool. Over the following weeks the minerals come out of the water and grow onto the glass. Nothing is glued and nothing is carved. The crystal is the object.
The color comes from which minerals went into the tank, and the texture from how fast the water gave them up. Where the surface is coarse and faceted the crystals grew slowly; where it runs fine and dense they grew fast.
About eight inches tall. The glass form the crystals grew onto is the interior, so it holds water and a fresh stem directly. The glass is fixed in place, not removable, and the crystal itself never touches water.
He sets the chemistry, the temperature and the timing. The tank decides the rest. This is the only Glacier mini vase.
It goes on the bookshelf, the vanity, the bedside with whatever is in season. A white flower against it reads as snow against stone. For the collector of small things, the friend whose taste is precise, the person who would never buy this for themselves.
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