PETRA BRIC
Qi (Chi) collection
“The Qi (Chi) brooch collection is made of silver with original Murano glass and coloured quartz cabochons. Energy is like an invisible pulse that permeates the universe and gives life to everything that exists. It is a vortex that moves galaxies, a light that illuminates darkness, and heat that warms the heart; eternal and indestructible, passing from form to form. The song of life that flows through matter and thought and worlds, visible and invisible. The breath of creation – a mysterious force whose invisible dance connects body, mind and spirit, heaven and earth, attracts and repels, creating balance in chaos. Magnetically attractive, it reminds of the hidden forces that connect us to the endless flow of creation.
What am I in this eternal flow of energy? What becomes of my energy? Light, movement, invisible vibration in the rhythm of the universe?”
Material
silver, Murano glass, polished quartz
Technique
lampwork technique (using a fixed directional open flame to melt glass), goldsmithing technique
Petra Bric was born in 1982. After graduating from the High School of Design and Photography, majoring in photography, she continued her studies at the Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, majoring in digital media. She fell in love with glass in 2007 and began gaining knowledge abroad from various glass masters. Every year she visits the island of Murano, where the doors of glass workshops are open to her. She is an active member of the Slovenian Glassmakers Association. She annually exhibits at the group exhibition of glass art in the Ana’s Gallery in Rogaška Slatina and participates in various festivals, where she demonstrates the glass-making technique called Lampwork, with which she reflects images using an open flame burner. She mainly uses Murano glass in various shades and silver as her medium, from which unique glass pieces are created.
