Artwork description: I perceive that natural objects and glass have common ground. Natural objects have not only formative beauty, but also carry the flow of time, processes of their formation, inherent qualities, and the long history and natural processes of the Earth. Glass shares this. Glass is part of the Earth’s long history and natural processes. Silica, a component of ancient rocks, turns into sand over time, which melts under heat to become glass. This transformation mirrors the alteration and generation processes of natural objects. By handling glass, I relive nature’s generation and transformation. In nature, objects exist solely through Earth’s activity, not human influence. In this artwork, lava-like texture emerges from combining glass and aluminum foil. Silica dioxide (SiO₂), the main component of glass, also constitutes much of lava, and aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃) is one of lava’s major oxides. Mixing glass with aluminum foil thus imitates and reconstructs lava’s principal components. Using nature-derived glass and my original expressive style to highlight elements of natural objects, I sense a strong connection to nature and the object’s presence. While exploring what defines natural objects and emphasizing glass as an artificial material, I investigate where to set the boundaries between natural and artificial dimensions of glass.