pure curiosity: “I always want to see what happens.” Solving chemistry and technology problems are at the core of his work, which is a product of the technology that he discovers — and of his “collaboration” with the medium. “Hot glass is a living thing. It is a dance and I have decided to let glass have the lead. To let it do its thing.”

For a year, Peiser spent one day a week with two glass artist friends experimenting, trying everything they could think of.

“I mean, it was just a whole lot of fun. I looked forward to that day. And then after almost a year of just trying a bunch of, well, any idea we could come up with, you know, what would glass do if…and somehow that ended up resolving into this body of work I’m doing now.”

“My work has also been about investigating and discovering new processes. When you choose to investigate a new process—a way of seeing that has no history, no examples, the only way to discover new possibilities is to try something and see what you get. Sometimes you can theorize what is possible, and that works, sometimes — but more often something unexpected happens to show possibilities you couldn’t imagine. You build a vocabulary of possibilities and if there are enough of them, and the process will allow you to combine them — to compose and grow — perhaps beauty can evolve and grow.”