> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Mel George > Reference:: https://garlandmag.com/article/jenni-kemarre-martiniellos-freshwater-saltwater-weave/ > Date:: 2022 > Tags:: #warp #glass #Australia #aboriginal > WeftLinks:: [[Aesthetic value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft is an established art form]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Of Arrernte (Australian Central Desert), Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent, Martiniello embraces 60,000 years of Indigenous Australian culture through her identity and the medium of glass. ### Highlights [![[Attachments/253efd3fac09b26724b255c7871c81fa_MD5.jpg]]](https://garlandmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Jenni-Martiniello-Catalog_Page_10_Image_0001.jpg) Jenni Kemarre Martiniello, _Medium Green Reeds Eel Trap #4_ – hot blown glass with canes, 28 x 95 x 28 cm, 2015 Unlike paint, glass colors do not mix and blend, and the glass technique known as caneworking is used to form intricate weaving-like patterns. Coloured glass can be twisted, stretched and pulled, and after cooling, can be bundled, stretched and pulled again. This method allows for an infinite combination of colors and patterns that are used to create a final blown glass object that appears woven. This is the nature of glassblowing: it requires a collective. Martiniello articulates, “you can’t really expect to do it on your own—you just don’t have enough hands.” Martiniello is playing with the Italian technique of millefiori, meaning “one thousand flowers,” which has been used for centuries, mostly for small items such as jewellery. Bush Flowers Bicornual #17 and #18 demonstrate a clever interfusion in which millefiori has become “Australianized.” “Indigenous artists, no matter what their particular art form, are in the process of shattering silence. We are appropriating something that belongs to the dominant culture or the colonizing culture and turning it to our use so it becomes a vehicle of our cultural expression. It’s about survival and adaptability, it’s about using what we have available to us to achieve what we always needed to achieve – for people to acknowledge that we have inalienable human rights that everybody else has, and we don’t just occupy these convenient little mythological niches that the dominant culture would sometimes like to keep us in.” 6.