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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.
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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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