Fused Glass

Train and metro stations often have some beautiful murals on their walls. Most often, they are of ceramic tiles. But, in the Taxim station, where the funicular from Kabatas arrives, there is a great mural in fused glass. The scene is of the Bosphorus. A closeup of some houses, a ferry boat and a mosque...

The fused glass artist is Ebru Susamcioglu and she did the work at The Glass Furnace in Istanbul. "Cam" is the Turkish word for glass. The red motif for CAM is very clever.

The Glass Furnace has a website located at http://glassfurnace.org They have classes in various glass working methods on their campus, out from the city in the district of Beykoz.