Molten glass art is an underrated art form that most artists abandoned in recent years, but not Dylan Martinez. He’ll make you fall in love with glass art all over again with his incredibly realistic glass sculptures that look just like bags filled with water.
Martinez fell in love with glass art while taking an elective course in college, and he never looked back. He earned MFA in Glass at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and went on to host countless exhibitions around the world.
His main goal is to explore the boundaries of human perception through the manipulation of light, space, and the physical properties of glass. He created several series of glass artwork in an attempt to achieve this goal, but “H2O/SiO2” is the biggest hit to date.
His glass art in this series takes shape of water bags, reminiscent of the ones you get at pet stores when buying a fish. They look incredibly lifelike since Martinez’s main goal was to create art that forces the viewer to question their capacity to discern between reality and illusion.
“The trapped movement of the rising bubbles and the gesture of the forms convince the eye that the sculptures are just as they seem. What is fascinating is that our desires often override the true perception of reality and you often believe what you think you see as the truth,” the artist explains on his official website.
