Rolanda Scott, The Art of Transformation, pt. 2
Series: A Grain of Sand
From: Charles McGuigan
Length: 00:29:23
Rolanda Scott can take a chunk of solid glass, drop it in a flower pot then super heat it in her kiln, turning it into liquid, which she then pours it into a mold, creating a sculpture unlike anything else in the world. But she can do this other thing that makes all other art seem paltry by comparison: Rolanda can take young minds, as malleable as heated glass, and shape them into willing vessels that will themselves create. She can pass along that need and desire to make and to transform.
Rolanda's survived one occurence of cancer after another over the past eight years. She's learned a thing or two about pain and dealing with it. When she is no more, Rolanda will leave the very last vestige of her physical self forever fused with a piece of glass sculpture.
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Rolanda Scott can take a chunk of solid glass, drop it in a flower pot then super heat it in her kiln, turning it into liquid, which she then pours it into a mold, creating a sculpture unlike anything else in the world. But she can do this other thing that makes all other art seem paltry by comparison: Rolanda can take young minds, as malleable as heated glass, and shape them into willing vessels that will themselves create. She can pass along that need and desire to make and to transform.
Rolanda's survived one occurence of cancer after another over the past eight years. She's learned a thing or two about pain and dealing with it. When she is no more, Rolanda will leave the very last vestige of her physical self forever fused with a piece of glass sculpture.
