Hikari, in glass.
A closed cloche of moss, sphagnum and lichen, sealed in May. Settles into its own weather over weeks; the glass clouds with condensation in the morning and clears by midday.
- Vessel
- Hand-blown borosilicate, Toyama JP
- H
- 18 cm
- Ø
- 14 cm
- Plants
- Leucobryum glaucum · Asplenium nidus
- Substrate
- Akadama, kanuma blend, Tochigi JP
- Sealed
- 2026 · 04 · 21
- Edition
- 04 / 12
- Care
- Indirect light · mist fortnightly
From the workshop.
Studio W9 · London
This cloche took longer than most. The glass arrived from Toyama with a slight asymmetry at the lip that I liked, it meant the stopper sits at a fraction of a degree off-true. Not noticeable unless you look for it, but it's there.
The moss came from a batch collected near Tochigi in March. Leucobryum glaucum behaves differently depending on when it was collected. This spring batch sealed quickly, which I took as a good sign.
I numbered this one 04 because the first three of the edition went to people I know. The fourth felt like the right one to release first.
Other specimens.
View catalogue →Mizu no oto.
A hand-blown sphere holding selaginella and a single fern frond, suspended over water-dark gravel. Named for the sound condensation makes against the glass at night.
Mori no kage.
Reindeer moss and a single oak leaf, pressed flat and set behind glass in a hand-finished oak frame. The forest's shadow, kept still.
Hane to ha.
A quartet of pressed botanicals (fern, vetch, woundwort, lichen) captioned in a curator's hand and set across four panes in a single frame.