Blown Glass Sculptures Look Like Delicate Ghosts of the Natural World

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Artisan Simone Crestani finds inspiration in the “imperfect elegance” of nature. This striking quality informs his entire practice, materializing as beautiful blown glass sculptures of biotic forms found in the natural world.

In Crestani's collection of works, a wide array of flora, fauna, and other organic objects come to life. Using borosilicate glass, he crafts sculptures that showcase his subject's decorative yet flawed details. These include the gnarled and twisted trunk of a blossoming bonsai tree and the irregular patterns produced by clustered bubbles and molecules.

Nature's imperfect elegance is not the only juxtaposition that Crestani regularly explores in his striking sculptures. “In my works I love to see coexistence between fragile form and concrete details, hard contours and harmony of elegance,” he explains. “Glass is the perfect material to sum up these contrasts.” Much like his muses, blown glass is never perfect. This makes it an ideal material to illustrate these contrasts, which, Crestani believes, ultimately manifest on their own accord.

“I shape the material, but the end result has an identity of its own,” the artist confides. “I help it to grow, and wait until it gives me an indication of the equilibrium that will allow it to express itself.”

You can see more of Crestani's collection of awe-inspiring blown glass sculptures on his website.

Inspired by the “imperfect elegance” of nature, Simone Crestani crafts beautiful blown glass sculptures of organic forms.

Blown Glass Sculptures by Simone Crestani

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures by Simone Crestani

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Blown Glass Sculptures Simone Crestani Blown Glass Trees Blown Glass Bonsai Blown Glass Animals

Simone Crestani:  Website | Instagram

My Modern Met granted permission to use photos by Simone Crestani. 

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Kelly Richman-Abdou

Kelly Richman-Abdou is a Contributing Writer at My Modern Met. An art historian living in Paris, Kelly was born and raised in San Francisco and holds a BA in Art History from the University of San Francisco and an MA in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University. When she’s not writing, you can find Kelly wandering around Paris, whether she’s leading a tour (as a guide, she has been interviewed by BBC World News America and France 24) or simply taking a stroll with her husband and two tiny daughters.
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