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Mercury Swift

Mercury Swift is a non-binary artist, jeweler and educator living and working in Baltimore, MD. They received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Object Design from Towson University, and are currently a Studio & Program Manager, and Instructor at the BJC. Swift's art practice varies from flameworked glass and cast silver to performance and sound art. Each facet of their studio practice interconnects and informs each other, as all of their work is centered around the body and it’s sensory experiences.

The pieces in Swift’s 2025 Holiday Sale line are part of an evolving series of works in flameworked glass and sterling silver. This series of work explores glass beads as bodies of their own. Swift sees universal life in the forms they sculpt in molten glass; each bead behaves differently and responds to its environmental conditions just as people do. The sculpting of a molten glass bead is itself a dance, a conversation about needs and desires between the artist and the glass. Upon completion of each glass bead, the bead itself becomes a relic of the dance. As these forms come together into jewelry, individual glass bodies become part of a wearable network, constantly in conversation with its surroundings and the body of the wearer.

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