kevin mazur, getty images
I think coming from a dance background, there is a song and dance; you’re constantly having to move and you’re having to follow the glass. You’re having to intuitively make movement and sort of surrender to this material so that you can get to the finish line. Otherwise, it sort of freezes a moment in time. So I felt like it was a really good practice and surrender for me. And from there I began to think of ways to create objects out of the material, and I started to just gather ideas and sketches and build the design for the collection.
- Solange to ELLE
Saint Heron introduces us to "Small Matter Art Objects: Handblown Glassware 001". This is a collaborative collection with black glassblower, Jason McDonald. The sculptural glasses designed by Solange through Saint Heron (design studio & gallery, Small Matter) aims to encompass light, color, movement, and form.
The launch party was held a few days ago in NYC, where Solange debuted the collection in partnership with Crown Royal.
I sort of look to [Crown Royal] for their iconography. I try to create iconography through my work, especially through the Black context, and when I think about Crown Royal and I think about the Black household, I think about the purple bag, and I think about all the ways that Black people engage with the purple bag to store their pennies, their bobby pins, their safety pins, their objects around the house. And so to be able to collaborate with someone who has a legacy of creating iconography through the Black lens was really important to me.
The 198 hand made piece collection goes live for purchase tomorrow, June 20, on Saintheron.com
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