Tina Oldknow discusses her interest in glass. Oral history interview with Tina Oldknow, March 22, 2018, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:08.

Tina Oldknow: Oh, I think it’s definitely the fire and the light. I think from a—you know, that’s kind of a purely emotional reaction, and of course so many artists have exploited that. But, intellectually I think glass is a mystery. You know, it’s not a solid, it’s not a—you’ve heard this, it’s not a gas. It’s not a liquid, it’s another kind of molecular structure we have—in fact, the Corning scientists say that glass isn’t a single material, it’s a state of matter. So you have glassy steel, you have glassy concrete, you have glassy all kinds of things. So, I think the mystery of that material and the kind of different ways you can make it into so many things. It’s such a mimic. It can mimic anything. It mimics, you know, gems. It mimics rocks. I mean, it can mimic a lot of other materials. So, I think there’s just the versatility of it is fascinating to people. And the different states that you can work it in: opaque, translucent, or transparent, there’s a lot of—a lot of places to go with it.