Irina Mastov · Delray Beach, Florida
Light,cut by hand
cut by hand
Paintings built from paint, texture and hand-cut mirror. They are quiet in the dark and restless the moment the sun finds them. Keep scrolling, and the room wakes up.
Scroll into the light
In the dark, glass is only glass.
It takes a window, a lamp, a bit of morning. Then the surface stops being flat and starts holding light the way water does. The same piece gives you two different rooms in one day.
Every shard is scored, snapped and set by hand.
01
Score
A single line drawn across the glass. No second attempt, the surface remembers the first one.
02
Snap
The glass decides where it breaks. I follow where it wants to go, and the painting follows the glass.
03
Set
Pressed into wet texture at an angle. That angle is what throws light back across your room.
01 · Available
Drift
Hand-cut bronze mosaic, texture paste · 36" diameter
$650
Bronze does not flash the way mirror does. It warms, slowly, and the whole circle moves like something under water.
02 · Available
Night Bloom
Precise thin-cut mirror, texture paste, gold leaf · 36" x 36"
$1200
Built on black on purpose. In daylight the mirror cuts the petals open, under a lamp the gold takes over and the black goes soft.
03 · Available
Fathom
Mosaic, texture paste, epoxy resin · 24" x 48"
$1200
Tall and narrow, for the wall everyone gives up on. The resin holds the light down inside the piece instead of bouncing it straight back.
04 · Available
Plume
Mosaic, texture paste · 24" diameter
$1200
The loudest piece I have made, and the one people stand closest to. Every feather is a separate decision about where the light lands.
05 · Available
Kin
Gold leaf · 30" x 40"
$800
No mirror in this one at all. Gold leaf does something quieter, it holds the light instead of throwing it, and the room stays calm.
06 · Available
Crosswind
Hand-cut mirror, texture paste, gold leaf, rock crystals · 24" diameter
$850
Mirror throws light across the room, crystals hold it and break it into colour. Two birds, two ways of answering the sun.
Five more, already finished and looking for a wall.
Twin Bloom
$1200Crystals, plaster, texture paste · 30" x 48"
Wingspan
$750Hand-cut mirror, plaster, texture paste · 24" x 24"
Ember
$800Hand-cut mirror, texture paste, gold leaf · 30" x 40"
Reverie
$800Hand-cut mirror, texture paste, mosaic · 30" x 30"
Wisteria Hour
$500Hand-cut mirror, texture paste, amethyst · 24" diameter
Now send me your wall
One photo of the room, taken in daylight, and the width of the furniture underneath. I will tell you which piece belongs there, with a price and a date. If none of them fit, I will say that too.