Luminosity : Victoria Ku | Have You Ever Seen Jellyfairies

Stained Glass, 11.5 x 18 

$900

My work begins with an inspired emotion that I wish to see in the world, followed by a manifestation of what that emotion would look like.  From that feeling, I imagine the forms and landscapes it might inhabit before quite literally shattering glass and bending it to my will. I see this whole process as a form of nirmata or creation where my forms started from a seed, were born into glass and metal, and can withstand the elements as real as any of us.  

As light shifts throughout the day, each piece transforms: colors deepen and saturate, and figures glow or dim. I delight in discovering the perfect ghostly white glass to depict celestial bodies acting as conduits— immortalizing magical moments where the light of the world gathers and briefly takes shape.

Within the two landscapes that I’ve crafted for the Luminosity exhibit, figures reach toward one another, drift, or expand into space, reflecting moments of arrival and expansive, playful joy.  Each piece becomes a portal where light, glass, and motion reveal a glow that was birthed from my hands, to give you the purest joy in any dark moment. Have You Ever Seen Jellyfairies is a sculpted portal that captures a tide of light and warmth for beings who are experiencing awakened awareness in a luminous field. Cosmic Witches is a sculpted portal into three cosmic beings (witches) activating a nocturnal kinetic and divine liberation- manifesting joy and expansion.  

BIO

Victoria Ku is a stained glass artist based in San Francisco whose work explores how light, emergence, and how subtle energies connect beings to their environments. Working primarily with hand-cut glass and lead came, Ku creates luminous figures that appear to crystallize from cosmic or fantastical landscapes, transforming traditional stained glass into a contemporary exploration of light, movement, and myth.

Her compositions often start from an emotion in which Ku will quite literally shatter glass to allow the emotion to emerge, to depict human and otherworldly forms suspended between states—floating, reaching, or expanding into and out of fields of color. Ku uses light as both material and subject, allowing figures to function as conduits through which the surrounding world glows and transforms. Each piece becomes a portal where light, a specific strong emotion, and movement converge and become tangible in the world we live in, thus becoming real.

Ku works under the artistic moniker Celestial Glasswitch.