Since the time I began working as a glazer, more than 30 years ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina, my tools have been sheets of glass, a wooden ruler, a compass, and glass cutting instruments. My heritage, the work of my family dating back for generations, is the art and skill of cutting and forming glass. In the past 30 years, I have learned much about the properties of glass, and that knowledge served me well when I began to explore the techniques of fusing glass. With fused glass, I am able to incorporate my 3 decades of experience as a glazer with the infinite creative possibilities afforded me by firing (heating) and fusing glass in a kiln. While my visions are often geometric, they do not always focus on symmetry. As in Nature, there is profound beauty in both the symmetrical and the asymmetrical. What I strive to achieve when I create my pieces is the moment in time when my visions are perfectly transferred to the glass.These works are malleable from the point when I choose my colours, cut each piece of glass, and manipulate the firing times in the kiln. In fact, how I choose to create each piece is not complete, not fixed, until my realized vision is halted at its optimum temperature, cooled in the kiln, and frozen in time. Just as each icefall is unique, and each jagged rock ledge is but a punctuation mark in the passage of one hundred million years, my pieces are my visions, frozen in time and space. They are reflections, reactions, solid testimonials to the flow of the natural world which surrounds me.       - Sergio Golod, Canada -