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Veronica longifolia, commonly known as Speedwell

Veronica longifolia, commonly known as Speedwell, Botany
Veronica longifolia, commonly known as Speedwell
This plant grows outside our window where I eat breakfast and I've spent countless hours each summer, watching bees comb over open blossoms for pollen. This flower is very interesting in that the blossoms open sequentially along its stalk, almost like a fuse burning, so it remains blooming for about a month once it begins, and is a constant attraction for the bees! I've made my replica entirely of flameworked soda-lime glass, specifically Effetre 104coe glass rods. I pre-made about 120 components - the buds, blossoms, leaves and bees, then delicately added them, one by one to the stalk, bridging them with tiny stringers of glass as I went. I could never see the piece clearly until I finished it in its entirety and carefully began melting all the glass bridges from it, one by one.
  Wesley Fleming
Botany    10 x 6 x 2    $6,800.00   
Bio
Wesley Fleming brings fantastic realism of the microcosmos to life in glass. An ambassador for smaller denizens of the earth, his passion for nature sparks awe and curiosity in others. Growing up in the countryside, Wesley’s favorite pastime was exploring beneath logs and rocks in the woods or reading science fiction and comic books. Hence the natural world and his own wacky imagination became his muse.
Wesley has focused two decades honing his glassworking skills and captures the essence of actual species of insects and flowers with intricate detail of their tiny antennae or stamen. His work is in permanent collection of numerous museums including Corning Museum of Glass, Kobe Lampwork Museum and Racine Art Museum. Visit http://www.wesleyfleming.com/ to discover more about Wesley Fleming's work!