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CHEFS WORKING IN HOT KITCHENS HAVE NOTHING ON GLASSBLOWERS. JUST ASK ARTIST SOLANGE LEDWITH, THE ARTISAN BEHIND SWAMP GIRL GLASS BLOWING IN SLIDELL.

STORY BY BETH D’ADDONO

“Learning how to make a Venetian-style goblet takes so much control, a lifetime to achieve. Now, I’m dripping glass Jackson Pollock-style. It’s chaotic, hard to control. The fall of the glass determines the painting. It’s like a duet, a dance with the glass.”—SOLANGLE LEDWITH, Swamp Girl Glass Blowing From dangerous liquid glass, Solange creates gossamer Venetian-style goblets and dramatic art with bubbles of glass blown inside the larger for an astonishing layered effect. The shop overflows with her work, including a large cast woman’s torso draped in a fiber art bustier. There is an asymmetrical glass bowl fixed to a pedestal, glowing in golf leaf. Vases in all shapes, awash in color, line the shelves. Glassware ranges from the functionally pretty to the downright divine. ABOUT Solange discovered her passion for glass…

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Louisiana Cookin' (Digital) - 1 Issue, March/April 2025

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