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[Marcelle Ferron]: eh, I thought about glass completely by chance, and I said to myself, that's what I'm looking for it is the material that I am passionate about. |
| It was there and I had to learn the technique and hem.., I met Michel Blouin, a friend who would become a close friend and who had already perfected a technique to created huge splashes of colour. | |
| I wanted to work with tiny pieces of glass encrusted in lead; I wanted to do things that can be adapted to contemporary architecture | |
| So I sought an opportunity for extensive creative latitude for example, a wall of glass adapted to the architecture, and if it had to accommodate the view of a tree or garden or hide a hovel, well I am just as creative with glass as with paint. | |
| It is a material where I can have free rein | |
| [journalist]: So, you must understand it completely, | |
| [MF]: Yes. It must be understood to the point that I decided to make it myself. | |
| Because I was pushing and prepared to dive off the deep end. Am when I dive, I have no idea if I will succeed and how much time it will last. I know nothing | |
| [j]: Ok, well, how is glass made? What do you do to make it? | |
| [MF]: Hah! Glass is very complicated, the world of glass; first of all it is a material that I view as one of the greatest, | |
| There is a reason why it has flourished over the centuries it is a material with a huge impact on people's psyche, | |
| It is a very warm material, very much alive, very subtle and which can be changed endlessly and all that | |
| It is a capricious material, but because of that it has corresponding qualities | |
| It is sensitive, it is hem...very peculiar but hem... making glass is something else, it is a purely technical endeavour | |
| And form, binding myself to a technique and discovering a new material as a result of these techniques for me it is a totally new form of training; it is a completely new, huh...for example, it taught me to work with care | |
| Because if I work, for example with a Rochshock(?) that cuts glass, my enlargements have to be properly made we have to agree on cuts and all that. | |
| It's called learning to work as a team. Something I had never done before and which has brought me a lot | |
| [j]: But I thought... |
