Karin Faber
Karin Faber (°1965)  was inspired by the work of Leonardo da Vinci and his passion for flying and flying machines. She connected all flying routes on a map with a red wire and the visualization of them formed an intriguing and complex network. The complexity of the form was too large to execute this idea in glass and therefore she limited herself to Great Britain, a land with an interesting form and boarded by the sea.
In the casted white glass form, wholes are left to insert wooden sticks on which a red wire network is visualizing the flying routes, which results in an fascinating graphic image (Figure 2).

Ann Lambrechts
In her graduation work “Finiks”, Ann Lambrechts (°1953) was inspired by the symbolism of rebirth, the never ending force of rejuvenation, transformation and recreation, using her idiom of construction, destruction and reconstruction.
She uses recuperation materials as different colored bottles which are cut, heated and fused to elements, that she can use to construct larger objects.
The inspiration of the object came of the traditional Japanese Kimono, in which an inherent dynamic is present. Color is also of utmost importance with a preference of blue, the color of the element water (Figure 3).

Ingrid Vanderbiesen
Ingrid Vanderbiesen (°1959) works with lace and wanted to translate this into glass. For her graduation work “Patchwerk”, she uses traditional and modern patterns of lace to create  wall objects composed out of elements of päte-de-verre.  The individual elements have a different color depending on the style of the pattern and the colors complement each other. The surface of the individual elements create an interesting reflection (Figure 4).

Specialisation

Bert Sterk
Onbereikbaar” is the name of the graduation work of Bert Sterk (°1954). The installation is composed by self-portraits in cast glass covered with a blown glass bell. The color, present in the crude lead crystal, adds an additional value to the image by its coincidental infiltration into the piece. The installation translates his feelings and his inner thoughts - hersenpinsels-, which are unreachable for himself and others. (Figure 5).

Liliane Van der Elst
Liliane Van der Elst (°1953) was inspired by the beauty of tracks of a jeep in the sand during a walk. Her graduation work ‘Trails en Tracks’ is composed of the 3-dimensional visualization of these tracks.
She constructed casts profiles of tracts around a band, which is placed vertically in the sand. It also represent the link between glass and sand, which is the basic material for glass (Figure 6).