Erin Dickson's work resonated with me the most out of the
Pilchuck artists in residence. Working with glass seems so different from
anything I've ever done, in my limited arts experience. Dickson's work seems
really intensive, like it takes a lot of time, thought and planning. There's so
many physical layers in works like Emotional
Leak and Heaven Starts on the Ground.
She uses glass to create concrete structures out of sounds and flat compositions.
Dickson commented on how she wants to take the feeling and associations created
by architecture and implement them into her work with glass.
Heaven Starts on
the Ground resembles a topographical map in layers and layers of blue-green
glass. It represents the space between Earth and the heavens, forcing the
viewer to focus on the reality and the present. The layers overlap in irregular
formations, creating areas of increasingly clear and increasingly opaque glass.
It seems scientific and precise and beautiful.
For Emotional Leak,
Dickson layered hundreds, if not thousands, sheets of glass. She made a
three-dimensional model of a leak from the ceiling down to the work it
destroyed below. It looks like a sort of exploration of the space in between, what
happened between the ceiling and the floor. It made something tangible. The
glass is reflective, allowing viewers a distorted, layered look at themselves
and their surroundings. The undulations in the glass are organic and sensual,
and I find it interesting how Dickson can make something that appears supple out
of a material so firm. Overall I think her work is fascinating and makes me
curious about the capabilities of glass as a medium.
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