July 25, 2008
sunday 10:08 a.m.
in the loop
by charles leroux
tribune photo by stacey wescott
Danny Ellis' fascination with glass began in childhood with a turtle made at an art fair his parents took him to. "There was a guy at a bench with a torch," remembers Ellis, now 46 and a glass artist himself for the past seven years. "I was taken by the way the glass would turn to liquid." That's Ellis shaping a lampshade at the Chicago Hot Glass Studio on North Central Park Avenue as a birthday present for his girlfriend. After an hour's work, the shade broke-he suspects because of incompatible rates of contraction of the color layers. The same fate befell his second attempt. The gift will be late. "She's been with me as long as I've been into glass-blowing," he says. "She understands."
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