It gives them great freedom, but also a particular idea about what the work is. They invoke the vocabulary of vessels, but for sculptural use, not for utility. They leave no fingerprints, and acknowledge gravity only by resistance. Shapes range from controlled to severe. Glass is thin.
Colors run from strong to brilliant.
Janusz Pozniak shows a dozen pieces twice the size of anything else. Aggressively colored with contrasting studs, they are blatantly sexual, and though they jest at male posturing, it's still one man teasing another. This is bravura glass making, accomplishing the more difficult feat of being genuinely funny without satire. Pozniak forgoes all but vestigial utilitarian references. Yes, these shapes could have become vessels, and those could be stoppers, but the real parallel is to human bodies with symbolic heads.