http://www.gottglass.com/ Recent Photos Photo  ]]>  ]]>  detail of sculpture]]>  ]]>  ]]>  Lifesize figures at The Ovation, St. Petersburg Florida]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  public art collection of Fort Pierce and Port St. Lucie Florida]]>  cast glass detail, Public Art]]>  Earth Sign and great Hall Chandeliers, cast glass and steel]]>  on display at the Gulf Coast Museum, Florida]]>  ]]>  ]]>  ]]>  The Guardian and The Wild WOman Archetype]]>  Abstract Figurative works by Susan Gott]]>  The Guardian and The Wild Woman Archetype, cast glass, copper hair, granite base, 47" tall and 39" tall]]>  This photo is from 2002 but will always be one of my favorites.]]>  Cast glass disc on stone base, inspired by the Mayan glyphs and ball courts of the Yucatan, 24"x19"x8"]]>  Susan with granite, steel and cast glass sculpture.]]>  Spirit Bird, One of a kind, cast glass with copper and woven glass chunks, wings created in collaboration with artist friend Polly Holt]]>  Spirit Weight, "Dreamer" mask]]>  ]]>  ]]>  detail of Passageways, Red]]>  Detail of False Door for William, concentric rings of spirit]]>  Cast Glass, hand-wrought steel]]>  backlight photographs, poured, cast glass in window frame boxes, Created for Visual Unity 2, 2010, exhibited at the Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FLorida, Another of the truly marvelous pieces in the show stems from the collaboration of Steven S. Gregory and Susan Gott, both based in Tampa. At first Gregory, a photographer known for his evocative landscapes, wondered what sort of common ground he could find with the glass artist, whose totem-like sculptures emit a spiritual presence. "I thought they were just torturing us," he jokes. "How am I going to fuse hot, molten glass with my paper products?" But the pair found common ground in the idea of ghosts — and the technical solution of printing Gregory's photos on a decal film that could be adhered to glass. Working with a found window frame, which Gott cast in clear glass, the two created a pair of pieces that function as passageways into another realm, where spirits or memories dwell. Inside the wood window frame, a female figure in black and white (extracted from an antique photo) hovers in front of one of Gregory's landscapes, a dilapidated house under an ominously cloudy sky. Inside the clear glass frame, a different woman peers out. The pieces' titles, This is Not a Window — Body and This is Not a Window — Soul, teasingly allude to early 20th-century Surrealism, a movement that prized forays into the otherworldly. For Gregory, the process has opened the door to more collaboration. When a poet contacted him recently about working together to make a video, the photographer agreed. "I think because of how well the pieces came out between Susan and I, I said, 'Sure, let's try.'"]]>  Work in Progress, design is sectioned into tiles, then laid out and sculpted in micro-crystalline wax with a bas-relief surface. Each tile is individually cast in glass.]]>  detail of glass tiles in the wing of Pegasus]]>  Pegasus, an Art In State Buildings project, University of Central Florida]]>  work in progress for the City of Tampa, Spring Hill Community Center.]]>  ]]>  #7]]>  work in progress, commissioned by the City of Tampa, for the Spring Hill Community Center]]>  detail of figurative sculptures]]>  detail of wall sculpture]]>  detail of life size sculpture with self portrait of artist's face]]>  cast glass and stone 17" x 15" x 4"]]>  cast glass and stone 17" x 15" x 4"]]>  ]]>