The sculptures are designed so that there is no doubt that they are depictions of animals – and in a single case, a little boy in a glass cage – but the animals are apparently blind, blinded, or at least asleep.
Anita Bracalente’s hand-knitted pieces with countless tiny glass beads, spark associations to both art deco interiors, patchwork, fractal patterns and Islamic rugs.
While earlier designers were used to relating strictly to wood, steel, glass, clay and textile, today, the range of materials has undergone explosive growth to include entirely new types that behave very differently and function across the field in unprecedented ways.
Glass artist and Maria Sparre-Petersen, teaching associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy, sees new possibilities in an elastic field spanning from classic decorative projects to the virtual space that everyone now carries in their back pocket.
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