Michael Mikula is a designer craftsman working in glass since 1988. Architectural details, and their cultural variations point the way for his body of work in blown glass. The decorative traditions of any culture tell us something about who they are (or were) and what they value and aspire to. As a designer-craftsman, I'm particularly drawn to the optimistic quality that those traditions reflect. With a jazz-like sense of improvisation, I in turn, reinterpret those qualities with mold blown, cast, cut and polished glass. Each composition is one of a kind.