Deai series - installations Deai, the title of the series, translates from Japanese as “encounter”. These works are glass pyrographs that are made by drawing hot molten glass, leaving the immediate charred tracery of my movement with the heat. It is a way of capturing a fleeting moment and eternalizing it, and it gives the viewer the opportunity to see a gesture. “I see this process as a metaphor of my daily life in terms of encounters and impressions relating directly to my work. Meeting someone, seeing some event, hearing a piece of music - these encounters are fleeting moments, but sometimes the impressions of these moments take on their own lives.” - E.I.