Tom Philabaum is an award-winning Arizona glass artist who started Tucson’s first glassblowing studio in 1975. His Precarious Rock Series plays on the organic, earthy theme of rocks. The rock series came about in 2007 by exploring shape-making techniques whose consequent was not a vessel. He originally conceived of sculptures composed of many parts or fragments to create the whole, resulting in the Precarious Rock sculptures. The precarious notion comes from the fact that the rocks are laminated in seemingly gravity defying positions. Philabaum retired from glassblowing in 2018, making these final available sculptures truly special