Edward Waring: Orbit City

 

"Continuing my explorations in glass, both as material and metaphor, the forms I create draw from architectural language but resist function.

 

I endeavour to explore how light interacts with surface and space, suggesting windows, thresholds, or interfaces. Portals between the past, the present, and the possible."

"Some of the pieces have 15 layers of paint. I work very slowly and leave at least 24 hours between coats to let them hard dry. It’s meditative and totally instinctive. I wait for the colour to reveal itself. It’s like a big jigsaw puzzle, except there’s no box." 

"Orbit City is my speculative vision of a future urban environment, where the boundaries between architecture, environment, society, and the unknown blur.

 

You're invited to step into a liminal space, a city that hovers between orbit and Earth, fiction and form, anticipation and memory.

 

Shapes, structures, and patterns emerge – a skyline built from the dreams of our past and hopes for the future."

"The glass is lovely, but when it’s left alone in the shop there’s a sadness to it. When I find something really beautiful that still has the maker’s mark on it, like the sticker, which means it’s never been used, I think that’s sad. I’m transforming these objects. People can bring them back into their homes. These works give joy." - Edward Waring,  The Press, NZ, September 20, 2024