Process
My practice moves between print, painting, video, and glass, with each project informing and guiding the next. Working across multiple mediums keeps the process open, allowing ideas to shift and change over time.
Projects often begin by building on threads from previous works or develop through moments of chance discovery. How color settles into a surface, how glass responds to heat, or how light moves through space, becomes the guiding factors for my work. Research into material contexts, behaviors, and histories further shapes these directions. Rather than beginning with a fixed concept, the work remains responsive to the environments in which it takes form.
While certain works involve formal systems or mathematical frameworks, the process is not purely analytical. Curiosity, play, and enjoyment are essential to keeping the work exploratory. My practice gravitates toward the relationships and processes shaping the world around us.
Images
Much of my work engages patterns, perception, and the ways visual elements are combined and transformed. Projects move across painting, digital imagery, video, and sculpture. Computer-based tools such as 3D modeling, digital rendering, illustration, and generative approaches are used to test structures, repeat forms, and observe how patterns develop as they move toward finished works.
Image-making takes several approaches, from sketching through observation and refining drawings over time to working digitally. Tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator are used to develop compositions, adjust color relationships, and resolve structural decisions. These digital components often serve as starting points for further designs, including prints, magazines, video projects, or paintings on canvas. Each stage introduces new questions that feed back into my process, allowing it to unfold through discovery.
Sculpture
My sculptural work is centered on exploring patterns in physical space. Working in three dimensions introduces additional layers of complexity. Using geometric building blocks allows me to explore symmetric relationships in a direct, hands-on way.
The glass sculptures are made from borosilicate glass using lampworking techniques. This material has a long history in scientific instrumentation and laboratory use, which parallels my interest in structure, systems, and material science. Borosilicate glass is produced commercially as rods or tubes with precise dimensions. These consistent units serve well as building blocks for scientific glasswork and lend themselves to geometric compositions. To shape the glass, I use an oxygen and propane torch, which produces a flame that reaches temperatures over 2,000°F.
The process of making these glass sculptures relies on heat, gravity, and timing. Building precise forms by melting glass together with a torch is technically challenging and exacting. Glass has a unique way of capturing structure and form, bending light through and around to create patterns that are both immediate and visually striking. Alongside exhibiting these sculptures, my book Polystix Adventures and related papers and presentations on Hexastix geometry offer deeper technical explorations of the mathematical principles underlying the work (see <1>, <2>, and <3>) -Anduriel Widmark 2026.
