Long Conveyor
Artist: Blanche Tilden (born 1968)
Date: 1997
Dimensions:
H: 1/2 in. (1.2 cm); L: 185 1/16 in. (470 cm); W: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
Medium: Flameworked borosilicate glass, titanium, sterling silver.
Place of Origin: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Margy and Scott Trumbull through the Art Placement Program of the Glass Art Society
Object number: 2008.185
Label Text:Inspired by the functional beauty of industrial technology, Blanche Tilden explores the relationship between the machine-made and the hand-crafted. Though her pieces are painstakingly fashioned and assembled by hand, their clean, stark aesthetic evokes the industrial assembly line. With Long Conveyor Tilden investigates the chain as both a symbol of manufacturing and an object of sinuous beauty. The combination of titanium links and glass rollers suggests the fragility of fine jewelry and the visceral, tactile satisfaction of precision-made machinery.
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