Shay Salehi

Apart from her sculptural work, Shay maintains a steady glass practice. She kiln fires glass beads into ceramic moulds to create fine sculptures that highlight the fragile nature of the material. The process known as pâte de verre, is a form of kiln casting that mixes finely crushed glass with a binding material which is then applied to the inner surface of a negative mould. Shay borrows this technique in order to create delicate sculptures that do not display the well-known properties of glass, such as its transparency or optics; therefore, at first glance one would not even consider this work to be made from glass.