My
name is Kerstin, but about everybody calls me Kim.
I
was born and raised in Germany and studied History of Arts at the
University in Berlin. My other fields of interest in an academic
sense are Ethnology, Anthropology and, lately, Physics (although,
regrettably, I did not pay much attention to it in High School and
therefore I am missing about all of the basics).
So
now that we have established that I might be a little odd, we can
move on ...
My
two great passions are animals and glass. As you can see, this web
site is saturated with glass, so don't worry, you will definitely
not get around it. But first, let me get to the animals.
I
am, by professions, a veterinary nurse. The official term for it
here in the US is "Licensed Veterinary Technician" or
LVT and although the job is somewhat technical, I think 'nurse'
would have been a much better terminology. But I would love to be
an artist when I grow up !!!
I
am host to three ferrets and one dog. My dog Max (that is him there
on the right) is getting very old and is accumulating more and more
diseases, syndromes and conditions. So My days are scheduled mostly
around him (aside from the fact that he is a 'velcro dog' and permanently
attached to me anyway). My three weasels are called Loki, Wally
and Boris and, naturally, are challenging me every day with new
mischief.
I
have always had some kind of crafty hobby but when I tried out stained
glass a number of years back, I was hooked. Stained glass led to mosaics
and then fused glass. I used to create a lot of portraits of animals
in whichever technique I was working at the time. Today, I am concentration
on fused glass jewelry (which is really hard to do when I would really
love to do all of the above.
The
pictures on the left are from before I found my current style of fused
glass jewelry. As you can see, you may call it my 'brown phase' or
'the earthen period' =)
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