Ghanaian artist melts glass waste into wonders
Michael Tetteh, Ghana’s only professional glassblower, clenches his teeth as he grips a red-hot ball of molten glass, his burnt and blistered hands bare against the steaming stack of wet newspaper he uses to protect them.C and pregnant with melted windowpanes, TV screens and soda bottles he would soon transform into elaborate vases swirling with psychedelic colour. Some become red vases with streaks of black, others green pitchers and some clear, everyday bottles.
Michael Tetteh and his trained staff, Janet Offei and Kwesi Israel Tetteh , shape molten glass to produce glassware at Tetteh’s workshop in Krobo Odumase, Ghana. Photos: Francis Kokoroko/Reuters Hailing from the town of Krobo Odumase, the epicentre of Ghana’s traditional glass bead culture, Tetteh discovered glassblowing in 2012 while spending several months in France and the Netherlands, learning the craft with other Ghanaian bead-makers.
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