The makerWyatt Bouchard
The beginning
A life shaped by fire
Glass remembers,
so we work slowly.
Aurora began with Wyatt Bouchard, a glass artist from Belleville, Ontario, Canada, who saw molten glass as liquid starlight.
Raised between his father's welding shop and his mother's ceramics studio, he learned early that making is a way of paying attention. At twenty, he began working in borosilicate glass—repeating the same cycle of flame, rotation, heat, and cooling until the material began to speak back.
Years later, a workshop fire reduced his equipment and archives to fragments. He rebuilt with borrowed tools in a small garage, one piece at a time. The lesson stayed with him: there is no shortcut to work that carries a maker's hand.
“Fire teaches patience. Glass remembers every mistake.”
FromBelleville, Ontario, Canada
MaterialBorosilicate glass
BeliefTime leaves a mark