And so you progressed towards unexplored hotizons from a compositional point of view? Obviously the innovations created by mixing colors and fusions were achievements which I would explore in a personal manner each time I returned home to Murano. I have always done thing gradually.

I collaborated wiht several furnaces for my applications (of figures on vessels or plates) and for technical problems, such as welding one piece to another in the architecture of my more complex pieces. Today I have invested even more by personally acquiring new equipment, annealing ovens and electric kilns to create as much as possible in my own studio, and to be more secure in my own technique. What is your idea of the furnace? The furnace is a world which has always fascinated me, the furnace is volume, lampwork is nothing in comparison. But my work is what I have inside and the furnace is the framework I need to give value to this content. In my works the vase, the glass, the panels are simply the background and the suspended figures are the fulcrum of my work whose vitality remains undiminished.