{"podcast":{"title":"Talking Out Your Glass podcast","slug":"talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080","podcast_index_feed_id":558080,"rss_url":"https://talkingoutyourglass.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.talkingoutyourglass.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/e/3/4/2e343f03e16c01c7/NEW3ITUNES.jpg","author":"Shawn Waggoner","episode_count":299,"summary":"Former editor of Glass Art magazine Shawn Waggoner interviews internationally respected artists and experts in hot, warm and cold glass. For questions or comments shawntelroyale@yahoo.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T02:18:52.207818+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080"},"episode":{"title":"Michael Endo: Using Kiln Formed Glass to Explore the Spaces in Between","slug":"michael-endo-using-kiln-formed-glass-to-explore-the-spaces-in-between","published_at":"2025-11-11T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080/michael-endo-using-kiln-formed-glass-to-explore-the-spaces-in-between","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080","url":"http://www.talkingoutyourglass.com","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkingoutyourglass/Michael_Endo_-_11625_3.36PM.mp3?dest-id=356274","summary":"An abandoned, dilapidated swimming pool in the forest. A pile of trash smoldering in a secluded backyard. A dark and deserted highway flanked by an unexplained light. Michael Endo's kiln formed glass is about the potential of empty spaces and how people inhabit the subliminal area between the civilized world and wilderness. It begs the question: Is our world real or manufactured? Says Endo : \" Locked in a loop of familiarity and strangeness, my gestural paintings, drawings, glasswork and sculptures exist in a moment of tension. By depicting the boundary between a wild space and the city, I present scenes where my interest in alternative communities, the relationship between space and psychology, occult knowledge, eschatology, ecology and the uncanny converge.\" To reveal and examine the experiences people tend to gloss over is Endo's primary aesthetic goal. He states: \"Some people get turned off by what they perceive as a darkness to the work. But it doesn't bother me. They are entitled to their own opinion, and I don't consider it while I am making the work. I don't think the work is exclusively dark. People read that into it, but I am interested in exploring these marginal spaces and experiences and bringing them forward.\" Endo's work is currently on view in What Remains, the fourth exhibition at The Byre, a centuries-old stone barn turned into an exhibition space by Bullseye Projects in Caithness, the northern-most county in mainland Scotland. What Remains features site-specific installations and works by Celia Dowson, Katharine Dowson, Endo, and April Surgent that reflect on stories and experiences reconstructed from fleeting shadows in memory and the earthed-over remnants found in the landscape. The show will remain on view until March 2026. Born in Portland, Orego…","meta_description":"An abandoned, dilapidated swimming pool in the forest. A pile of trash smoldering in a secluded backyard. A dark and deserted highway flanked by an unexpl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5247,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080/episodes/michael-endo-using-kiln-formed-glass-to-explore-the-spaces-in-between/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-out-your-glass-podcast-558080/michael-endo-using-kiln-formed-glass-to-explore-the-spaces-in-between.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}