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Glass Work

This section contains selections of glass sculptures created over the last four decades, primarily using lampworked technique. This is a technique that Ruffner pioneered.

A Gift of a Lily Pond

Bouquet of Muses

Celestial Pattern Recognition

Neptune's Bento Box

Graffiti—Then and Now

Celebration Requires Ornamentation, or the History of the Party Bow

Extreme Pollinators

Pollyanna's Jolly Roger

The Real Reason Morning Glories Climb

The Origin Myth of the Gourds

Giggle Tornado

Le Petit Lapin Foux Foux

Lily Handled Basket of Flowers

Curly Demoiselles

The Art Lilies of Eternal Summer

Tropical Iceberg

The Origins of Watercolors

Passionate Idea Making

Bouquet of Bouquets

Recognition Is Not Comprehension

Gravity as the florist

Floral Mathematics

How Spring Feels

The Infinite Art Armadillo

The Secret to Flourishing

What if the painting was in the Brush

2D and 3D Decorative Dewdrops

Egyptian Topiary

Floral Headed

My Favorite Breakfast

The Evolutionary Stages of A Sunflower

Architecture From Pollen

Orchard Window

Repetitive In Petal and Scale

The Burdens of Beauty

Tornado-Spotted Vegetation

Art Is The Queen Of My Universe

Jordan's Basket

My Inner Water Dragon

Blue Melody Of A Spiny Arbor

Dinner Bouquet

My Favorite Breakfast

Pastiching Pablo

Write Your Own Story

3D Floral Painting

Calligraphic In Form- Floral Painting

Pointillistic: Floral Painting

Stepping Over the Constraints of Decoration

Turning a Drop Into a Wellspring

Garden Transport

House of Glorious Mornings

How Rain Gets In Clouds

Lifecycle of Lyrical Tattoo Bubbles

Out My Window

Wing Buggy

A Different Ripeness

Ab Ex Morning Glories

Aquarium Garden With A Tsunami Hat

Art Stands On The Shoulder Of Nature

Drawing Is The Language Of Art

Gilding The Sunflower Basket

Abstract Expressionistic Flower Pot

Life Cycle of Glint

Making Flowers From Clouds

Dance of the Rainbow Trout

Evolution of the Mosiac

Fruit Bowl From the Garden of Ideas

Decontextualized Birds

Garden Pining

Inventing Flowers

When A Banana Gene Meets An Ab-Ex Gene

Bird Brane

Envisioning Venice

Fish Ladder

How to Make Your Tendrils Curly

Irresistable Lure of Wisdom Beauty

Phasing Moon

Stepping Over the Constraints of Decoration

Studio Window

Sunflower in Moonlight

Symbolic Languages of Love Two

Virtual Musician

Wall Flower

Anatomy of a Puddle

Aroma Therapy Neckpiece

Dewdrop Server

Having an Idea

Making Star Patterns

Out My Window

Precious Abundance

Wine Vase

Belle Self Portrait

Botanical Pillars

Mini Shrine

Not So Still Life

Preciousness Greenhouse

The Flow

What Is Really Tying

Where Do Your Ideas Really Come From?

Abex vs Still Life

Art Game

Art Mountains

Beauty Is An Arbitrary Choice

Bountiful Flying Art Clouds

Cyclical Nature of Floral Fashion

Dizzying Effects of Modernism

Dreams

East Coast West Coast

Evolution of Abstraction

Frilly Modernism

Graphics Tidal Wave

Interior Landscape

Pablo Parts

Planet with Multiple Equators

Rose Training

Smelling Surprise Flower Basket

Starship

Symbolic Language of Love

Tempest in a Spoon

Think With Your Heart

Turning Over a New Bowl of Cherries

Vineyard Visions

Virtual Fasteners

What's the Point

Beautiful Protection

Beauty Protects My Nest

Beauty Vessel

Brain Brakes

Bridge Between Reality

Building a Garden

Classic Bubbles

Danmeyer House

Decorative Leaf Igloo

Ecstacy of the Hands

Garden of Infinity

Growth

If Art Could Fly

Invention of Leaves

Methods of Heart Protection

Mobility

Morphing Up the Evolutionary Ladder

Plenty of Moonlight

Restructuring A Still Life

School of Thoughts

Shape Shifter

Still Life Wearing a Necklace

Structural Leaves

The Art Qu

Time to Fall in Love

Tractor Pull

Water Is Outside the Vase

Who Says Wine Doesn't Grow on Trees?

Wide Load Flower Scooter

Art Bubbles

Art Is a Window of Transcendence

Beauty Net

Coloring the Waves

Constructing a Painting

Content is the Narrative

Distillation

Floozy Blossom

Garden Jewelry

Garden Thoughts

Hemisphere of the Brain

Holly Box

Knowledge of Hands

Lilly Puddle

Making a Ray of Sun

Norton Museum Commission

Origin of Color

Regarding Beauty

Seashorse

Secrets of Winemaking

Storms in the Art World

Sweet Bowl

Tasty Frieze

Ubiquitous Gift

Vase For Starbuds

Vessel Decoration

What Is a Style?

Why I Love Seattle

Aliteration

Beauty Is a Human Construct

Brain Series Language

Burning Desire to Communicate

Composing

Decoration

Don't Throw Gemstones at Glass Houses

Earthquake Protection

Elements of a Still Life

Envisioning a Still Life

Four Tradional Subjects

Fragrance Neck Piece

Fruits of My Inspiration

Interconnected Brain

Key to My Happiness Is Creativity

Language

Mechanics of Flight

Myth of the Rainbow

Obsessions

Opulent Brain

Protection Of-By Creativity

Stormy Weather in the Art World

Supporting the Festival of the Lights

Time

Transportation Holds the Country Together

Visually Cold

Wired House

Organization of the Subconscious

Origin of Evanescence

Outerspace

Pattern Sources

Power of the Spoken Word

A Self Image

Alternate Locomotion

Anderson Commision

Art Making

Balanced Diet

Classic

Collaboration

Coping with the Fountain of Youth

Creativity's Roots

Elements of a Still Life

Envisioning Architecture

Envisioning the Alphabet

Envisioning the Concept of Flight

Envisioning the Concept of Light

Envisioning the Concept of Time

Envisioning the Creation of Pattern

Envisioning the Weather

Eye Candy

Finding Sources

Incognito Ergo Sum

Internet and Web

Jumping Through Hoops

Learning to Cat Paddle

Mechanics of the Brain

Nature vs Nurture

Online or On the Phone

Personal Adornment

Power of the Mind

Reading

Support of the Arts

Table of Content

Theory of Applied Decoration

Tools

Trick Dog

Underwater Cammoflage

Underwater Ornament

War and Peace

Your Code

A Different A Frame

Allegory of Head and Heart

An Urn of Seashell Wine

Anderson Commision

Another Way for the Chicken to Cross the Road

Ascension of Woman

Being Fruitful

Chicken Brainstorm

Choosing the Appropriate Accessories

Choosing the Appropriate Light for Flowers

Circuitous Path

Container and the Contained

Garden Party

Head in the Treetops Feet in the Teatops

Hedging My Bets

How Can I Jump Rope with a Martian on my Head

Iced Fruit

Ideal Summer

It's All In How You View It

It's All In How You View It

Martian Theory of Balance

My Cross Country Relationship

Nature and the Environment

Now You See It

On the Wings of Geometry

Original Cab

Piece of Cake

Rainbow in the Trout

Rainmaking

Roots

Secret to Smooth Sailing

Sum of the Parts

Unusual Growth Patterns

Viewing the Seasons

What a Pear

What's in a Hurricane

Why Ropes Coil

Absolut Vodka

Another Pretty Face

Another Type of Object Alphabet

Architecture Utilizing Bamboo, Clouds, Ivy

Art Part Hors d'Ovevres

Art Reigns

Cherries, Snowflakes, and Shirt of Course

Cool Dude

Even Nectarines Can't Prevent a Broken Heart

Feasting

Fish Teepee

Flaming Snowman

Flying Jugs

Fruitful Goddesses of the Diamond Rings

Good Luck Charm Bracelet

Hemisphere of the Brain Containing Pattern

Hot Still Life

Jailhouse Math

Leftside of the Brain

Mating Dance of Salomes Pegasus

My Computer Has Wings

Phantom of the Opera

Red Dice Question

Secret of Eye Hand Coordination

Still Alive

Tasty Frieze Escaping From the Pyramid

Underwater Teepee

Urnscape

Vineyard Window

What If Flowers Could Spin Webs

What's Really in the Space Between Integers

Who Says Art Doesn't Grow on Trees?

Why Not?

Your Tongue Is LIke a Peach

Aladdin's Slipper

Barrie of Matisse

Don Quixote Eat Your Heart Out

Forest of Life

Fruit Pinwheel

Good Luck Urn

Tree of Life

Art Rains

Beauty's Handiwork

Before and After

Blue Ball Black Flower

Border Peach

Botanical Infinite

Boy Bridge

Drama of Chaos

Eve and Pink Sticks

Exotic Fragment Feeling

Falling Nectarine Drops

Flower Finger

Gift Box From the Boys Including Ball

Gilding of the Cage

Golden Bow

Grand Oh

History of Surrealism

Holly Box

Inventing the Music of Beauty

Inventions of Games you Shouldn't Bet On

Jewels Spring

Last of the Beauties

Machine in the Landscape

Paramecium of Beauty

Playing Under the Arbor Torpedo

Pondering Women Yellow Feather

Propeller of Beauty

Protect Your Inner Landscape

Red Cross, Bean Dish

Red Flower, Falling Back

Red Light Green Light

Serpent Harp

Sources of Creativity

Summerhead

Various Possibilities of Architecture

What's At Your Fingertips

What's in Those Books?

Wild Indian

Art Guts

Beauty as Athena Eve and Pandora

Beauty as Daphne

Beauty as Drama

Beauty as Ideas

Beauty as Infinity

Beauty as Leda

Beauty as Medusa

Beauty as Solome

Beauty as the Decorative Arts

Beauty as the Muses

Beauty as the Passion Triumphing Over the Intellect

Beauty as the Vices and Virtues

Beauty Being Created by Art

Beauty Deconstructing Portraiture

Beauty Expanding the Concept of Art

Beauty Multiples the Jugs and Fishes

Beauty Teaching the Past

Beauty's Alter Ego as a Tornado

Beauty's Inspiration

Beauty's Landscape Vs Architecture Dance

Falling Nectartine Drops

First Steps of Creativity

Invention for Determining Your Heart's Desire

Invention for Improving Internal Clarity

La Donna Mobili

Languages of Beauty Volume 1

Languages of Beauty Volume 2

Melting Evolutionary Theories

Not So Still Life

Passions of the Hours

Power of Words to Invent Beauty

Purpose of Ornamentation

Self Portrait with Lampworking Dictionary

Six Tornados of Consequence

Some Thoughts on Relationships

Soon to Be Still Life

Stella at the Luovre

The First Step of Creativity

The Origin of Color

The Power of Words to Create Beauty

Toys of Art History

Urban Planning

Viewer and the Viewed

Way You Make Me Feel

Absolute Vodka Ad Piece

An Art Dream

An Opinionated House

An X-Ray Vision

Architecture Morte

Art Being Directed By Life

Baudrillard's Pony

Beaut Moving Into Arts Neighbor

Beauty Fleeing the Raft of the Medusa

Beauty Lassoing the Tornados of the Heart

Beauty Learning From the Past

Beauty Offering Simulacrumbs to Vocabulary

Beauty Reclining on the Barge of Beliefs

Beauty Surfing Through a Still Life

Beginning Tornado

Big Flat Fish Skyscraper Bone

Burdens of Art Plowing the Fields

City of Broad Shoulders

Debate Over the Origin of The

Dreamboat

Dress Me

Drive-In Of My Motivations

Fin de Seattle Earthquake

Floating Objects of Desire

Flying Buttress

Fractal Geometers

Goddess of the Thanksgiving Day Parade

Handlebra

Herman Nootics

I Still Love Picasso

If Words Were Horses

Le Bateau Ivre

Louge Herbivore

Melting Evolutionary Theories

Moonlight Sail with Golden

Moving to the Next Sculptures

Rewriting the Building Code

Roots, Evolution, Destination

Still Life With Architecture

Stilled Life

The Bower You Unlock

Tornado of the Heart Cast Out of the Conversation

Tunnel of Love Wears Heartbreak Pyjamas

untitled Red Urn

untitled Standing Fish

untitled Urn With Fish

Venus Disguised as a Pool Shark

Your Heart Is a Loaded Snake

Beauth Trudy

Debate OVer the Origin of the Planets

Goddess of the Neon Tetras Shows Off Her New Oven Mitts

History of Juggling in Egyptian Gardens

I Still Love Picasso

If You Square Dance with Your Fears

Juggler of my Heart in Person

Le Bateau Irre

Love Is the Openning Door hahaha

Making Peace With Green

Pump Fish Red Dye

Road to Architecture is Paved with Chandeliers

Seeing Arizona

Still Life with Skyscappers

The Fin De Seattle Earthquake

Tornado Wearing a Necklace

Underwater Florist

Unified Playing Field Theory

Birth of Caviar

Driving Across the USA

Glass America Coupon

Jughead Sees Fireworks

Love is Blind, Ugly

Love Is the Openning Door hahaha

My Pickup Truck in the Garden

Old 4 Eyes Goes to a Family Reunion

Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire

Pataphysicians Doorknob

Still Glass

Surrealists Builds a Float

Spotted Fever

Blue Box

Dancing Box # 24

Dancing Box #11

Dancing Box #19

Dancing Box #21

Dancing Box #22

Dancing Box #23

Dancing Box #32

Dancing Box #33

Dancing Box #37

Eat Your Hat

Living in a Glass Shack with Thunder and Lightning

My New Sailboard

Still Life

Dancing Box #1

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