Liskova employed a technique called flameworking, in which the flame of an oxygen/propane torch is used to melt glass. She used borosilicate glass, a material much stronger than the glass typically used in studio glassblowing (Pyrex ovenware was originally made of borosilicate glass, for example). Each of the vertical elements began as a hollow tube. Liskova inflated them and “pulled points,” applying heat on either end to create the pointed tips. She then used a hand-held torch to join each flameworked tube into the final construction. Of course the ineffable beauty of the piece is the relationship and progression of the perfectly proportioned tubes, which was carefully worked out. In person, the piece reminds me of icicles or stalactites. However, these two natural forms have qualities of fragility and stasis quite unlike this piece, which bulges and swells with an incredible sense of movement, like, as the title suggests, a visual representation of music.

–Bobbye

-Solomon Berkovitch