# The Materialist : Colin Keane Lynch

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Podcast: [The Materialist : A Podcast from At Present](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-materialist-a-podcast-from-at-present-7020202)
Published: 2025-04-21T17:41:14+00:00
Episode link: https://atpresent.substack.com/p/the-materialist-colin-keane-lynch
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This week on The Materialist , I had the joy of sitting down with Colin Keane Lynch, the artist and jeweler behind Keane . His work has been part of At Present’s assortment for years, but this conversation offered the time to slow down, zoom out, and ask how meaning is made—through hands, history, and a thousand degrees of heat. Colin’s pieces are hand-formed from glass in his Brooklyn Navy Yard studio—each one made by him, start to finish. But as we talked, it became clear that the true through-line in his work isn’t just craftsmanship or aesthetics—it’s curiosity. The kind that spans childhoods spent among zookeepers and chemists, travels to glassblowing ateliers in Italy, and hours upon hours of studio time where intention meets improvisation. Three Pea Ring, Silver/Red We talked about how value is created—economically, emotionally, and artistically. And about how hard it is to define what’s “worth it” in a world where perception can feel like quicksand. From Zoo Animals to Murano Glass Colin grew up in St. Louis. His father was a zookeeper at the St. Louis Zoo, and his mother ran her family’s industrial coatings business—formulating everything from Steinway piano lacquers to experimental nail polish for dentists. (“Don’t ask,” he said, which of course only made me want to ask more.) His parents also ran an artisan import business sourcing from Central Mexico and Italy, where their connections eventually led Colin to spend a summer in Murano learning to blow glass from some of the world’s masters—at just 15. That summer was a turning point, not just creatively but conceptually. He described the experience as a kind of apprenticeship-in-motion, where the discipline of making met the thrill of learning without limits. It was like being sent to basketball camp and find…

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