Wander
Artist
Chris Day
(British, born 1968)
Date2020
MediumBlown and sculpted glass with microbore copper pipe, rope, and steel
Dimensions11 × 24 3/8 × 7 13/16 in. (27.9 × 62 × 19.8 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.17
On View
On viewThe central amorphous mass of transparent yellow-amber glass has been blown, stretched, pulled, and manipulated while hot around a structure of three sections of microbore copper pipe that have been secured together with copper wire. A few small air bubbles are visible within the glass. A central hole through the glass mass allows a small-diameter section of rebar to run through the glass. This central element is attached to two more sections of rebar at either end, which have been joined and bent to form an inverted V to create two sets of “legs” for the piece; this gives the work the generally sloping and curving shape of a boat’s hull, with raised prow and slightly lower stern. Rope is wrapped around the metal elements at the tip of the prow and near the stern. Near the front of the piece, a section of metal rebar is wrapped with a sheet of green-patinated copper and more rope.
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