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Sasha Zhitneva - All That Was Kept
hand-painted, engraved and heat-formed glass, metal, stained glass sculpture
11”x 9”x 18”
Process/Concept:
Constructed from hand-painted and engraved glass fragments, this piece brings together remnants of flash glass with shards from jars and bottles. I didn't try to resolve the differences between them. I let them sit next to each other and see what would hold.
The form came together through attachment, one fragment to another, without a fixed plan. Some parts carry more history, some almost none, but they end up sharing the same weight. The figure feels assembled rather than built, held together by what stayed rather than what was chosen.
Light moves through it, but never settles the image. It keeps shifting depending on where you stand. For me, the work is about noticing what continues to exist and, in existing, quietly shapes the whole.
From the Artist:
Most of what I use is already broken, has been used, and is already somewhere between being kept and thrown away. Flash glass with engravings, painted fragments, jars and bottles. The selection happens partly through what I find and partly through what feels like it still carries something. Sustainability isn’t a framework I apply consciously, but it’s built into the logic of the work. I’m not sourcing new materials to transform them. I’m picking up what already exists and finding out whether it can hold a relationship with something else. Longevity is more complicated. Glass is both fragile and permanent. The joints are load-bearing in a literal sense. If one fails, the form changes. I find that interesting rather than troubling. The durability of the piece is tied to the same contingency that gives it its meaning. I don’t separate material choice from visual outcome. The irregularity, the uneven light, the way different surfaces sit against each other come directly from working with fragments that weren’t made for each other. That friction is the piece.
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