Disturbed Glass Structures: The Volatile Continuity of Ruin

Abstract

This practice-led research project investigates structure from the disturbed perspective of ruin and ruination, and is directed toward inventing a sculptural form relevant to the idiosyncratic and prodigious demands of the ruin centred on ideas of fragmentation, isomorphism and entanglement. Within this project I engage both historical and contemporary ruin tropes as a resource to explore ruined fragments and multilayered ruin-forms, altering and re-constructing them in the pursuit of new sculptural forms. The outcome of this investigation is a series of freestanding and quadrated glass sculptures and a comprehensive technical investigation into the emergent fine glass casting techniques necessary for their creation. This project exploits the iconography of ruin, not as a depiction of ruin, but as an experimental interpretation of our contemporary culture in flux. Show more