Having grown up on the canals, Lino took inspiration for the Endeavor and Ala series from the boats and birds that fill Murano's landscape. The designs themselves, graceful and simple curves of glass, developed from Lino’s admiration for Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, a series of Italian comics that chronicle the adventures of a sailor. In these illustrations, birds and boats are depicted in a pared-down style, which Lino admired and sought to recreate in glass. 

For Lino, blowing glass is emotional. He feels personally connect-ed to each artwork he creates and insists that he will “never finish learning” all there is to know about the medium. This work demon-strates Lino’s commitment to glass. Considered by the Maestro to be “the biggest technical challenge” of his career, the stately Satur-no represents the pinnacle of Lino’s innovation and creativity. 

For Lino, glassblowing is meditative. He follows his intuition and instincts in the hot shop, allowing his creativity to flow in all direc-tions. The Poesia are particularly hypnotic: the intricate canes swirl together and invite the viewer to experience the same meditative qualities that Lino experiences while making the pieces.

Named for the floral pattern of its murrina, Florencia vesseles are created by layering and folding together differentcolors of flat rib-bon cane in order to create a petal-like structure within the rod of stretched glass. Once sliced into small pieces, the murrine are laid out on a heating stone and grouped tightly together. When laying out the murrine, Lino can assess how the glass pieces will stretch and shape during the blowing process.

Having grown up on the canals, Lino took inspiration for the Endeavor and Ala series from the boats and birds that fill Murano's landscape. The designs themselves, graceful and simple curves of glass, developed from Lino’s admiration for Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, a series of Italian comics that chronicle the adventures of a sailor. In these illustrations, birds and boats are depicted in a pared-down style, which Lino admired and sought to recreate in glass.