"When I approach glass in its fluid state I am always deeply moved. Making glass come to life is no easy task, but all difficulties vanish before the pleasure and emotion I feel when fire, which softens and moves forms, lets me reach the ideal dimension where my inner dream comes true. No difficulty can be an obstacle to the expression of the idea living within me." – Livio Seguso. Seguso, who was born and raised on Murano, has always considered the making of glass in a manner different from that of his peers. Never content with the design or making of vases, tableware, or decorative sculpture, he approaches glass as a sculptor. His intention in exploring the material is to discover how it works with light. The artist’s abstract sculptures are images of light that only a master glassblower could realize. Many of his sculptures take the form of large disks with a dense nucleus, often paired so that light moves through them. In Concentrazione, a shining, colorless nucleus is contained within vertical elements of dark, smoky glass. This sculpture does not reflect the rapid movement of light, but concentrates light at the center to capture its mysterious glow.