Seth Fairweather

Seth was debating veterinary medicine or neurosurgery as life directions, and then took a glass-blowing class to fill an art requirement. While living in New Orleans in January of 2001, Seth fell in love with glass and mix mediums, which really spoke to him. (Read more below)

Since then, Seth lived and worked around the country in any capacity possible that would allow him to follow his dream, his passion, and that would give him more access and understanding of this powerful material.

Seth currently lives in the East Valley of the Phoenix metroplex with his sweet family. He continues to work with glass, and is slowly building a herd of Chiweenies to protect the homestead.

“My work deals with solitude. My interest and focus is on the individual, without the definitions supplied, implied, or described by surroundings or society. My interest is in creating an object that houses within it a space for the viewer to explore, to lose him or herself and disconnect from their surrounds. The objects and installations that I create are referencing both the natural and the mechanical worlds that surround us, and using them as a way to access a deeper understanding of the self.

Connectivity has become a constant tangle of communication that weaves around us like a web. Rather than being able to see and experience and consider things for ourselves, we shout out our smallest thoughts into worldwide airwaves and wait to see how they are received. We form opinions based on how our others interpret what we say and feel, rather than on what we as individuals think and feel. Over time, our individuality becomes lost in the onslaught of mass communication. My work, and my interest, is reclaiming and resolving the question of the individual voice.”