From Sand to Spirit: Jean-Michel Othoniel's Sculptural Ode to Hennessy X.O

Sitting in his Paris garden, Jean-Michel Othoniel observes nature's course. "There is always a moment of contemplation at the beginning," he tells Hypeart, describing a flower's bloom and the ways in which a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis. Othoniel, who was born in Saint-Étienne and is now based in the French capital, has for over 30 years created poetic glass sculptures that draw from nature, personal memory and transformation. It was natural, of course, for him to gravitate to using glas...