Like I mentioned the other day, only one third or so of the artists featured in the Hotel Murano collection are glass blowers. Most of them use other techniques to shape glass. And so I’m interested in seeing what glassblower Martin Blank’s contribution will end up being. He calls his new body of work “visual mirroring,” explaining it this way:

“Mirroring is the way two juxtaposed objects relate to one another. There is a dialogue that is created between these forms. A tenuous and tactile presence is created. It is the ‘resonating voice’. Each shape relates to its adjacent partner. In this intimate stage each element has the ability to affect and echo the other.”

Judging by his past work, Blank’s sculptures work like amorphous prisms, collecting light and then throwing it out in fluid, ever-changing patterns. But for the artist, it isn’t so much about light itself as the interplay between form and space and the way that glass uniquely enhances that relationship. He adds, “The mirroring of abstract forms creates a balance between beauty and form, organic and fabricated. For me, this is the ‘why’ of making art.” Look for his answer to “why” on the fifth floor.

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