This body of work strictly focuses on the functional aspect of hand-blown glass. Since I started working with hot glass, I have been interested in the area of production work. The product line that I have designed and created is meant to provide viewers with the evidence that I have control in this area of art. The consistency in my pieces is something that I have been working towards during my time at Salisbury University. To be as concise as possible, I made my own blow mold out of a log. For this process, I drilled a hole in the log, sanded down the rough areas, then applied wet clay to perfect the inside. After soaking the log in water and spraying it with graphite, it was able to withstand the heat of the hot glass. By gathering the same amount of glass and the same amount of color with each piece, I reached the consistency I was looking for in each cylinder. I used a technique called ‘hot-popping’, in which the glass is scored in one small area and heated with a small flame, effectively cutting the glass to make three different sizes. I then finished them by polishing the lips. I was striving for a clean, sleek, modern look in this series of simple, cylindrical drinking glasses. I chose black and white to help my pieces provide the viewers with a sense of formal cleanliness. Black, suggesting elegance and formality, and white suggesting purity and cleanliness. The blue is what I chose to represent myself as an artist. Blue stands for confidence, tranquility, and calmness. I find serenity and peacefulness in working with hot glass, a state of mind I usually have trouble finding, which in turn gives me a sense of confidence in my work.