Wander
Artist
Chris Day
(British, born 1968)
CultureBritish
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)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2021.17
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 64
The 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.
ProvenanceSold to CMA via Vessel Gallery, 2021.Published ReferencesThe Corning Museum of Glass, "Recent Important Acquisitions from Collections Worldwide," in _New Glass Review_ 2022, no. 42, p.114.
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