The Glassmaker

A glassmaker, late in life, keeps a notebook: your phone. Each calm puzzle brings back one of his memories, a new page in the notebook. Open the book. Arrange pieces of glass, paint, paper, thread and stars on its two pages. Then close it. Closing presses the left page onto the right one, mirrored, and if the pressed picture matches the memory, it appears on the cover: a photograph or a pressed print, with two lines of his poem. Made for iPhone Duo. The fold is the verb: every puzzle is solved by closing the book, so you think in mirror images, and you can tell the page is ready before you close it. MATERIAL PUZZLES Paint mixes like paint. Glass mixes like light. Water spreads, paper blocks, ink takes colour, and on clear nights the stars join into the constellations he named after the people he loved. You learn every rule by watching the materials behave. ONE LONG POEM 100 memories…