Sea Glass Surface — Worn Silica Macro
8,785.25 ¥
Three pieces of sea glass photographed at 3:1 macro scale — the frosted silica surface produced by decades of wave abrasion creating a translucent white texture of considerable material beauty.
Description
Sea glass — fragments of glass bottles discarded in the sea and wave-abraded over periods of 10-100 years into smooth, frosted forms — develops a surface texture produced by the progressive chemical and mechanical erosion of the outer silica surface. At macro scale, this frosted texture reveals a landscape of microscale conchoidal fracture surfaces, chemical etching depressions, and residual smooth areas where the original glass surface has survived. This photograph, backlit on a lightbox to allow transmission through the translucent material, captures three fragments in turquoise, green, and white sea glass — the transmitted light creating a rich glow within the frosted material that reveals the internal quality of the silica and the variation in remaining glass thickness across each fragment.
