Air spirits (Heaven)

Artist: Micke Johansson
Height: 27 cm
Width: 14
Technology: Ariel
Edition: 30

Taught by the great masters and brought up in the Kingdom of Glass by the glassblowing elite, Micke Johan is extremely creative and has a unique artistic talent. This results in artificial glass that has never before been possible to manufacture. It is only now with the possibility of handling the 1000 degree glass mass on the glassblower's barrel and shaping the glass with the ariel and grail techniques, that this has become possible. He experiments and challenges the techniques. The Ariel technique, loosely translated as "spirit of air", was invented by Gustav Bergkvist in 1936 and is considered the absolute most difficult glassblowing technique. Ariel is an art glass developed from the grail technique. In the ariel technique, a glass blank consisting of several layers of different color layers is processed on the surface of the surface. The result is characterized by the fact that, in addition to patterns in different colors, differently shaped air bubbles are included that form formations around the colored patterns.
Micke Johansson has developed his own aerial technique, called MJT (the Micke Johan Johansson technique), and he is now the only champion in the world who masters the double aerial with the MJT technique. What is very unusual about Micke Johansson is that he himself both blows, manufactures and designs the art glass and all this in world class, where everything is done to perfection.
The name Ariel comes from the air spirits in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Air Spirit is a unique that is available in different color schemes.