Through the Eyes of Sculptor and Glass making

The video Through the Eyes of the Sculpture enabled me to really see being a craftsman is very difficult but truly an impressive skill. This video talks about the daily life of Emmanuel Fillion who is from Italy and enjoys being a sculptor. He began sculpting lime stones and became a master at it. Lime stone started to develop at the bottom of the ocean and seas. The stone is heavy when wet when it comes out of the quarry.
Emmanuel Fillion started as a restoration artist which is where a sculptor works on an area of a monument such as the hands, the face or a foot. In restoration, a stone carver has geometric shapes and a plan to follow. The sculptor must use his feelings to carve life back into the shape. In order for you to know the limestone is good is to check the stone's sound to make sure there is no cracks. If there is a crack it sounds like an old pot. A sculpture comes alive in clay, dies in plaster and is reborn in marble. Marble is the product of limestone baked and squeezed and crushed together when tectonic plates collided over 50 million years ago along the Mediterranean coast. There is no waste in marble. Marble can be used for paper & pharmaceuticals.

The second video was pretty short. It is called the Glass and Ceramics. It is fascinating how glass is really made. Glass is made of sand, on of the most abundant substances on the surface of the sun. The properties are actually different from sand. It is a viscous liquid which stiffens when cooled. This miracle of glass occurs in fire of a furnace in a refractory earthenware crucible, the glass maker which prepares mixture which contains 60% to 75% of silica sand. Sand is mainly composed of silicon dioxide or silica. This compound forms crystals, extremely well ordered, atomic networks that are united by regular bonds. Glass makers adds fluxes which can be soda, potash, limestone or oyster shells. These components are used to improve fusion which occurs around 1500 degrees Celsius also prevent from being too fluid at high temperature.

It was really interesting how you really do blow into the glass to make the shape that you want it to be. Through the first video it showed how precise the limestone needed to be for each sculpture. Everything the sculptor had in mind needs to fit with every single part in order to make a master piece.