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Brian Bowden | profile | all galleries >> Glass ORBits - Contemporary Art Glass Marbles and Other Art Glass For Sale! >> Mark Matthews Marbles For Sale >> "Geometric Enlightenment" Size: 2.71" Price: SOLD tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

"Geometric Enlightenment" Size: 2.71" Price: SOLD

Like all of Mark's UV marbles, this one is made out of 100% uranium glass, and thus it lights up like a Christmas tree on fire when you put a black light on it. Seriously, it is unbelievably bright! The last 3 pictures are with the black light. Now, usually when I take the black light pics, I have to set the exposure to either 4 or 8 seconds in order to get enough ultraviolet light in there to light up the UV glass for a good shot. But with Mark's marbles, even ONE second is too much, as you can see in the 5th picture. I have to set it to one quarter of one second in order to get the brightness down to a level where we can still see inside the marble! Truly amazing stuff!!

This marble is from Mark's geometric air trap series, and has a pair of rectangular air traps inside of it. What's amazing is that the two air traps are on different planes within the marble, two different geometric levels of existence! A true wonder in marbledom, seriously cool. Awesome collector piece here, large and in charge!!

Mark has basically run out of his good UV glass and isn't sure if he'll ever get another good batch. This could very well be some of the last of his UV marbles, so don't miss out!
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