Matias Martinez

Emotions in our own meadows, 2021

Glass, copper, glue

Matias Martinez is a glass artist out of Calgary, Alberta who’s artistic practice revolves around the concepts of LOVE in all the ways that it can affect us as humans. Martinez’s Glass blowing process is largely based on experimental and rhizomatic ways of creating where failure may occur but the success is a burst of emotions like fireworks in the sky filled with excitement! Martinez explains his processes like being on a hike where you can see all these beautiful spots you can reach and experience, then you just start walking through the beauty picking different paths/directions until you end up at this beautiful view point on top of the mountain (the finished artwork). I am aiming to show the commonalities between us as humans through our emotional growth/responses within situations in our lives that martinez’s puts into perspective through relating human emotion to plantlife and the biodiversity within all of them; such as how humans might be feeling down(blue) but still keep growing and thriving in these situations can be represented through a mysiteria flower growing so tall and outward that it looks like a beautiful spire of butterflies.