“I love to watch molten glass flow: to feel its movement connect with the pressure in my lungs. Glass is so corporal, yet as a medium it has the ability to translate the immaterial.
My work often reflect the amorphous quality of glass in its physical sense as well as a notion of a substance between material and idea. A spontaneous, indefinite form may be solidified in precious gold, often perceived as traditional and perfect, even holy.
In the actual work- as well as in the process of making - theory evolves to an experience, may it be intellectual, a cultural connotation, a small amused insight or simply a forgotten memory that reaches the surface in a viewers mind. “
Riikka Latva-Somppi is a visual and glass artist living in Helsinki, Finland. She works at the interface of applied and contemporary art using glass as her main medium.