Laid Open
Borosilicate flame worked glass
4”x2.5”x3”
2016
4”x2.5”x3”
2016
Glass has various natural physical characteristics that allow it to take shapes unlike any other material and also has the ability to be manipulated. In this piece, I force the glass to take on the resemblance of the human figure on the outside while allowing its natural ductility and adhesion to itself to create the abstract tangled core. Seemingly casual in pose, the gruesome contrast of exposed tangled red represents several dichotomies; i.e. inside vs outside, representational vs abstract, beauty vs grotesque.