Glass insect sculptor Wesley Fleming - The Flameworker

This is one of four short documentaries that filmmaker Ben Tobin shot over the last year about local Western Massachusetts artists. This one is about glass insect sculptor Wesley Fleming. In the film he mentioned that he gets commissions from entomologists, and talked about how he researches the insects for those commissions.

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The story of glass artist Wesley Fleming and his incredible work.

Check out more of Wesley's work at
wesleyfleming.com/
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robbersdog49says...

This was about the artist rather than an instructional video. I'm not a glassworker but I strongly suspect that an instruction video showing how to do just one leg of a spider properly would take way more time than is decent

For me, it struck the right balance.

mxxconsaid:

Not enough footage of how he actually makes those things.. too much talking about himself.

mxxconsays...

I'm not looking for the instructional video but just to show his process in more detail...you know kinda like "How It's Made" show..

robbersdog49said:

This was about the artist rather than an instructional video. I'm not a glassworker but I strongly suspect that an instruction video showing how to do just one leg of a spider properly would take way more time than is decent

For me, it struck the right balance.

oritteroposays...

I thought that you could probably make three really interesting short films of about this length by expanding on the stories touched upon in this one. A longer version of researching and making one commissioned insect and more about what entomologists think about their commissions might be one of the three.

I think there is another glass sculpture vid on the sift about the glass artists from Venice, where he studied. If I can find it I'll add as related, and let you know.

mxxconsaid:

I'm not looking for the instructional video but just to show his process in more detail...you know kinda like "How It's Made" show..

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