Paul Stankard notes Mark Peiser’s surprise at how he made paperweights. Oral history interview with Paul Stankard by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, April 28, 2016, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:52.

Paul Stankard: You go over to the bench, and there’s a collar, I call it. There’s a plate and a collar, and then there’s a Bunsen burner under that collar. Now, I heated up glass and picked up my inclusions. I picked up my set-up—called a set-up or inclusions—and brought it over, and then they’re heating up glass, and we’re finishing up the paperweight. So Mark Peiser—when I did this, this might have been my first demo. When Mark Peiser saw this, he says, ‘Christ, he just dumps it on.’ And I said, ‘That’s right Mark. I just dump it on.’ Because everybody thought—nobody knew how the hell I made my paperweights. How I—excuse my French—nobody knew how I was making my paperweights. [laughs] And they imagined all sorts of—whatever they imagined.