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Hold one of Josh Simpson's planets in your hand: Imagine what it would be like to enter orbit around a warm, lush world teeming with life. Each planet has a spectacular landscape. Some have active volcanoes. Many have deep oceans and continents with wide mountainous expanses or dense forests. You may find evidence of habitation by intelligent beings - a construction on the surface too regular to have occurred naturally. Space ships circle an inhabited world, sometimes leaving a trail of geo-synchronous communication satellites. Josh Simpson is a contemporary glass artist who uses age old techniques. Each planet is hand shaped with wooden blocks and other traditional tools. Glass is a blend of sand and metallic oxides and... extraordinary, blinding heat. The result is a substance that flows and drips like honey: when it's hot, glass is almost alive."Simpson's continuing fascination with space, and the technologies associated with it, is clearly evident in the imagery of spaceships, power stations, and satellites that figure so prominently in the Planets...For all of Simpson's interest in technology, however, his works are not futuristic in feeling, but ancient, like nature itself." Constantina Oldknow, Curator of 20th Century Glass Corning Museum of Glass.

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