In my mind, paperweight art combines the best of all possible worlds. I buy the best glass, which is absolutely clear and as beautiful as it can be. Then I can work exclusively on the artistic end.
Hot glass is such a wide open medium.
There is tremendous potential in it. We are using new techniques that are virtually unexplored. He fell in love with the hot glass process for its seemingly unlimited potential. Grubb wrote his senior business plan on opening a hot glass studio. As part of his study he worked for Correia Art Glass in southern California as an equipment builder.