Themes and Variations – DNA Inspired Glass Art

As I noted in a recent post, I recently started a new “Themes and Variations” page on this website, where you can compare other such studies with their final installations. Here is a set of DNA inspired glass art studies developed for the ARIAD Pharmaceuticals complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was an American oncology company, now part of Takeda Oncology, that was engaged in the discovery and development of medicines for cancer patients, thus the reference to DNA mapping in this piece.

Compare these concepts with the final sawtooth fused glass installation: