Wave Function Deep Blue

About Wave Function Deep Blue

This blue glass wall sculpture is by John Paul Robinson.

This graceful composition in hand-blown glass captures the beauty of light as it travels through the medium. Often inspired by nature, Robinson’s ethereal artwork also references the complex world of science.
Here, four elegantly curved hollow rods of hand-blown glass in a deep blue make a uniquely dynamic statement. As light shines through them, shadows on the wall add dimension and a sense of movement. The deep blue colour is created from a custom mix of blue and black glass powder. Each highly polished piece acts like a lens, bending the light as it enters it. The name refers to a scientific theory about wave particles.

“All of my pieces are informed by, allude to, represent or symbolize an aspect of our scientific understanding of how the world works. Science will one day inform a new spirituality.” John Paul Robinson

John Paul Robinson was born in Toronto in 1954 and educated at the Georgian College of Arts and Technology and the Ontario College of Art, where he later taught for several years. Robinson is a Fellow of The Creative Glass Center of America, recipient of the Joan Chalmers Glass Award and has twice received the Best Glass Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Robinson has had solo exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto, Palm Beach, Quebec City and Chicago. His works are in corporate, private and public collections throughout North America, including the Canadian Museum of History, the Musée des beaux-arts, Montreal and the Museum of American Glass, New Jersey.