Paperweight c. 20th century

This paperweight at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is just bursting with colorful energy. Imagine the anonymous artist carefully layering molten glass, each blob a conscious decision, a stroke of vibrant color suspended in time. It makes me wonder what they were thinking as they trapped those tiny bubbles, each one a little world of its own. It's almost like the artist was trying to capture a feeling, a memory, in this solid, tactile form. Maybe it was the quiet pleasure of childhood, or the way light flickers on water. The base of the paperweight, a gentle pink, feels so tender somehow. It’s the ground on which all the action happens. This object shares something with folk art and outsider art, where the focus is on direct expression, immediate feeling, and intuitive acts. It reminds us that art is all about being in conversation, passing ideas back and forth through generations. What do you think?