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.
- Vessel
- Hand-blown glass sphere, Toyama JP
- H
- 22 cm
- Ø
- 20 cm
- Plants
- Selaginella kraussiana · Polypodium vulgare
- Substrate
- Premium soil, charcoal base
- Sealed
- 2026 · 05 · 02
- Edition
- 02 / 8
- Care
- Bright indirect light · mist weekly
From the workshop.
Studio W9 · London
The sphere shape is unforgiving, you can't hide a bad seam the way you can under a cloche's skirt. This one took three attempts at the workshop bench before the join sat clean.
Selaginella kraussiana spreads faster than anything else I work with, so this piece is really a bet on restraint: how long it holds its shape before it wants to take over the glass.
The fern frond was chosen last, almost as an afterthought, but it's become the piece everyone asks about first.
Other specimens.
View catalogue →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.
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.