The Glass Holosphere - Stephen Callcott

Hologram and Glass Sculpture
Small singular glass sculpture composed of three 3D printed components, 4 sheets of clear plastic, an iPad monitor display, and a hollow hand-blown glass sphere.

The Glass Holosphere


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The Glass Holosphere is a multimedia sculptural piece. The sculpture is composed of a hollow hand-blown glass sphere inside of a pyramid based holographic system composed of four clear plastic pieces and three 3D printed objects. An iPad is used at a display at the base of the clear plastic pyramid in order to create and project the holographic media inside of the glass sphere. Inside the glass sphere, an orange flying butterfly is visible. The butterfly flaps its wings over and over but cannot escape the walls of the glass chamber.Ìý It is created and designed to be viewed by walking around the sculpture, so the hologram of the flying butterfly is visible at every angle. It is meant to juxtapose the historic craft of glassblowing with the modern phenomena of holographic media.

Artist is hand-blowing glass

The process of hand blowing the glass sphere using clear borosilicate glass

Holding a glass sphere in hand

Finished Glass Sphere

A 3D printer machine casting plastic

Production of plastic casing units using 3D printer

A four-sided pyramid object composed of clear plastic

This is the four-sided pyramid system composed of clear plastic

An iPad with animation displayed

This shows how the display breaks an image into four sections in order to be viewable as a hologram inside of the sculpture

Animated hologram inside of glass sphere

Final product: animated hologram inside of glass sphere

Artist Talk