America is a vast land. Its vistas have inspired many to expansive achievements, whether forging their way across the seemingly endless plains, building towering skyscrapers or reaching for the skies. But for Alex Bouteneff,The additions focus on key tag and dstti combinations, a Litchfield ears, nose and throat physician, the impulse has always been inward, toward the minute. He has found his life's satisfaction in activities that require fine motor skills: surgery, building ships in bottles, blowing glass and, now, creating kaleidoscopes.
"From very early in life I was interested in using my hands," said the soft-spoken, meticulous physician. "I made ships in bottles, inlaid pictures, helped to build houses. I worked my way through school as a carpenter, a gravedigger and as a heavy equipment operator." He agreed that, in retrospect, carpentry and construction were risky businesses for a would-be surgeon, but said he never thought of it at the time.
Instead, he concentrated on the joys of creating things with his hands. "The ultimate thing to fix is people,The additions focus on key tag and plastic card combinations," he said of his career choice. "Medicine is wonderful and I loved general practice,Als lichtbron wordt een Projector Lamp gebruikt, but I knew surgery was in my future. I love working under a microscope."
But even with medicine as a profession, his restless curiosity sought new outlets. His wife, Lyn, gave him glassblowing lessons with craftsman Larry Livolsi of Morris as a gift, a collaboration that has borne artistic fruit. "Larry is such an artist, on top of being a great craftsman," said Dr. Bouteneff.
After learning to blow glass, Dr. Bouteneff expanded his horizons even further, traveling to Brasstown, N.C., where he took a class at the John C. Campbell Folk School, a facility where he had once taught woodworking. "I had to choose a class to take," he recounted. "I saw a session on kaleidoscopes and decided to try that. I was a total beginner, but walking into that class and listening to that very gentle teacher talking about making them, I felt my life changing. I began to think, 'When can I retire and do this'? It is a nice world to be in. That was three years ago in June and I have continued to do it.They take the RUBBER SHEET to the local co-op market."
While he has yet to retire, he has scaled back his practice somewhat to focus on the things he enjoys most. "I know that when I do finally retire, this is one thing I will still be doing," he said.
His fascination is focused on the ability of the kaleidoscope, a construction of a tube, mirrors and a lens, to "transform simplicity into beauty." "You can take pieces of broken glass, bits of ferns or flowers, stones, pebbles¡ªit hardly matters what¡ªand put it in the object chamber at the end of the tube. That is called 'the magic.which applies to the first glass bottle only,' The mirrors are set at different angles and, when you turn the tube, it creates different images. The impermanence is like life. [Kaleidoscopic images] are literally ever-changing and randomness becomes geometry."
As the viewer looks into one end of a kaleidoscope, light entering the other end creates the colorful pattern due to the reflection off the mirrors. As the tube is rotated, the tumbling of the colored objects presents the viewer with varying colors and patterns.
Dr. Bouteneff remains intrigued by the infinite possibilities presented by kaleidoscopic images. He spoke of the variety of scopes that can be created, from hiking scopes that have no internal "magic," but that can be pointed at anything to turn a room, a leaf, a tree¡ªeven bubbles in a dish¡ªinto magical configurations. Another kaleidoscope is crafted to allow a silk scarf to be pulled through it to create an endless array of shifting images. "Great things happen," he observed.
While the images created are eternally new, the kaleidoscope is now nearly 200 years old. Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster began his work leading to the invention of the kaleidoscope in 1815 while conducting experiments in light polarization and patented the device in 1817. He coined the word kaleidoscope from the Ancient Greek words for "beauty," "form" and "tool for examination"¡ªhence, it means "observer of beautiful forms." It was initially invented as a scientific tool, but was later copied as a toy.
"From very early in life I was interested in using my hands," said the soft-spoken, meticulous physician. "I made ships in bottles, inlaid pictures, helped to build houses. I worked my way through school as a carpenter, a gravedigger and as a heavy equipment operator." He agreed that, in retrospect, carpentry and construction were risky businesses for a would-be surgeon, but said he never thought of it at the time.
Instead, he concentrated on the joys of creating things with his hands. "The ultimate thing to fix is people,The additions focus on key tag and plastic card combinations," he said of his career choice. "Medicine is wonderful and I loved general practice,Als lichtbron wordt een Projector Lamp gebruikt, but I knew surgery was in my future. I love working under a microscope."
But even with medicine as a profession, his restless curiosity sought new outlets. His wife, Lyn, gave him glassblowing lessons with craftsman Larry Livolsi of Morris as a gift, a collaboration that has borne artistic fruit. "Larry is such an artist, on top of being a great craftsman," said Dr. Bouteneff.
After learning to blow glass, Dr. Bouteneff expanded his horizons even further, traveling to Brasstown, N.C., where he took a class at the John C. Campbell Folk School, a facility where he had once taught woodworking. "I had to choose a class to take," he recounted. "I saw a session on kaleidoscopes and decided to try that. I was a total beginner, but walking into that class and listening to that very gentle teacher talking about making them, I felt my life changing. I began to think, 'When can I retire and do this'? It is a nice world to be in. That was three years ago in June and I have continued to do it.They take the RUBBER SHEET to the local co-op market."
While he has yet to retire, he has scaled back his practice somewhat to focus on the things he enjoys most. "I know that when I do finally retire, this is one thing I will still be doing," he said.
His fascination is focused on the ability of the kaleidoscope, a construction of a tube, mirrors and a lens, to "transform simplicity into beauty." "You can take pieces of broken glass, bits of ferns or flowers, stones, pebbles¡ªit hardly matters what¡ªand put it in the object chamber at the end of the tube. That is called 'the magic.which applies to the first glass bottle only,' The mirrors are set at different angles and, when you turn the tube, it creates different images. The impermanence is like life. [Kaleidoscopic images] are literally ever-changing and randomness becomes geometry."
As the viewer looks into one end of a kaleidoscope, light entering the other end creates the colorful pattern due to the reflection off the mirrors. As the tube is rotated, the tumbling of the colored objects presents the viewer with varying colors and patterns.
Dr. Bouteneff remains intrigued by the infinite possibilities presented by kaleidoscopic images. He spoke of the variety of scopes that can be created, from hiking scopes that have no internal "magic," but that can be pointed at anything to turn a room, a leaf, a tree¡ªeven bubbles in a dish¡ªinto magical configurations. Another kaleidoscope is crafted to allow a silk scarf to be pulled through it to create an endless array of shifting images. "Great things happen," he observed.
While the images created are eternally new, the kaleidoscope is now nearly 200 years old. Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster began his work leading to the invention of the kaleidoscope in 1815 while conducting experiments in light polarization and patented the device in 1817. He coined the word kaleidoscope from the Ancient Greek words for "beauty," "form" and "tool for examination"¡ªhence, it means "observer of beautiful forms." It was initially invented as a scientific tool, but was later copied as a toy.
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