https://www.matthewdayperez.com/lens daily 0.75 2014-08-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e42fd4e4b036cda054752b/1408388467393/Matthew+Day+Perez.031.jpg Lens - Clearly Broken and leaded glass, steel, resin, and lead 60" Dia x 22" Deep (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f25067e4b04521a6f719f0/1408388467393/Matthew+Day+Perez.031.jpg Lens - Clearly Broken and leaded glass, steel, resin, and lead 60" Dia x 22" Deep (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e42fffe4b036cda054755f/1408388519010/Matthew+Day+Perez.004.jpg Lens - Clearly Broken and leaded glass, steel, resin, and lead 60" Dia x 22" Deep (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e42fe9e4b036cda0547546/1408388700768/Matthew+Day+Perez.040.jpg Lens - Darkly Fused, polished, and beveled black glass, silicone, steel, paint, resin 42” Dia x 4” Deep The Claude glass, a turn of the century devise, used by naturalists and impressionistic painters to compress and heighten color, has become a recent fascination. “Darkly” is a wall-mounted sculpture that exploits this fascination. A hundred cold worked and beveled pieces of fused glass are arranged and siliconed against one another. The resulting pattern results in a bewildering confrontation, almost as if staring through an insects eye. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e43013e4b036cda054758a/1408388727380/Matthew+Day+Perez.002.jpg Lens - Installation view Fused, polished, and beveled black glass, silicone, steel, paint, resin 42” Dia x 4” Deep The Claude glass, a turn of the century devise, used by naturalists and impressionistic painters to compress and heighten color, has become a recent fascination. “Darkly” is a wall-mounted sculpture that exploits this fascination. A hundred cold worked and beveled pieces of fused glass are arranged and siliconed against one another. The resulting pattern results in a bewildering confrontation, almost as if staring through an insects eye. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e431f1e4b0990b09721c80/1408388923098/Perez_Matthew_Day_10.jpg Lens - To Capture Everything Broken and leaded mirror, fiber glass, resin, steel, paint 88” Dia x 15” Deep “To Capture Everything” is as much an experience as it is a sculpture. Delicately floating on the wall, leaded shards of mirror flirt with space and light: Fragmenting, distorting, and grasping imagery. Like a glutinous child in a candy store, the convex and highly reflective surface devours light, bending and shaping luminous streams into shapes resembling the mirrored shards themselves. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e43093e4b01ca7c475d5d7/1408388907478/Matthew_Day_Perez009.jpg Lens - To Capture Everything Broken and leaded mirror, fiber glass, resin, steel, paint 88” Dia x 15” Deep “To Capture Everything” is as much an experience as it is a sculpture. Delicately floating on the wall, leaded shards of mirror flirt with space and light: Fragmenting, distorting, and grasping imagery. Like a glutinous child in a candy store, the convex and highly reflective surface devours light, bending and shaping luminous streams into shapes resembling the mirrored shards themselves. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e4309de4b01ca7c475d5ec/1408388891505/Matthew_Day_Perez010.jpg Lens - To Capture Everything Broken and leaded mirror, fiber glass, resin, steel, paint 88” Dia x 15” Deep Detail. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e43023e4b036cda05475a1/1408388982845/Matt-Looking-small-07.jpg Lens - Well Cast and polished glass 34” x 34” x 6” A massive 300 pound casting of a simple object, a lens, allows the viewer to look through, as well as, consume the entirety of the gallery with ease as the entire 360 degrees is captured perfectly on the clear reflective surface. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e43044e4b036cda05475d7/1408389070095/Matthew+Day+Perez+14.jpg Lens - Well Cast and polished glass 34" x 34" x 6" Detail. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53e431e9e4b0990b09721c7a/1407463945405/Matt-Looking-13.jpg Lens https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53f24ab5e4b064bc97a22c9a/1408389193276/Lens+Detail.jpg Lens - Attempt At Making a Lens Cast, traditionally ground, and polished glass 17" x 17" x 4"   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b54e4b0329b1ff5f983/53f24a12e4b0454fd619f1e6/1408389223034/Small+lens+web+final.jpg Lens - Attempt At Making a Lens Cast, traditionally ground, and polished glass 17" x 17" x 4" https://www.matthewdayperez.com/two-planes daily 0.75 2014-08-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f2397ae4b0bd32781a89c8/1408383237169/Perez_Matt_04.jpg Two Planes - Two Planes Steel, paint, glass Variable “Two Planes” is a simple gesture that begs the question, what is glass but its edge? I often wonder this as I stare at a freshly cut and ground sheet of glass. Presenting two objects that represent the same space but delineate absence by use of two modes creates the “Two planes.” Quarter inch welded steel painted to the color of glasses edge is a remarkable decoy for glass. The second plane is simply a sheet of glass mundane and uninteresting, but activated by the absent space of its counter part. It draws great attention, to what glass is, and what it is in this particular instance, is its edge. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b74e4b025268d963ce8/53e1d0eae4b0b82de9ce2827/1408383237169/Perez_Matt_04.jpg Two Planes - Two Planes Steel, paint, glass Variable “Two Planes” is a simple gesture that begs the question, what is glass but its edge? I often wonder this as I stare at a freshly cut and ground sheet of glass. Presenting two objects that represent the same space but delineate absence by use of two modes creates the “Two planes.” Quarter inch welded steel painted to the color of glasses edge is a remarkable decoy for glass. The second plane is simply a sheet of glass mundane and uninteresting, but activated by the absent space of its counter part. It draws great attention, to what glass is, and what it is in this particular instance, is its edge. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b74e4b025268d963ce8/53e1d0e4e4b0b82de9ce281f/1408383277579/Perez_Matt_05jpg.jpg Two Planes - Two Planes Steel, paint, glass Variable “Two Planes” is a simple gesture that begs the question, what is glass but its edge? I often wonder this as I stare at a freshly cut and ground sheet of glass. Presenting two objects that represent the same space but delineate absence by use of two modes creates the “Two planes.” Quarter inch welded steel painted to the color of glasses edge is a remarkable decoy for glass. The second plane is simply a sheet of glass mundane and uninteresting, but activated by the absent space of its counter part. It draws great attention, to what glass is, and what it is in this particular instance, is its edge. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b74e4b025268d963ce8/53e1d143e4b09a5661056948/1408383312669/Matt-Looking-small-20.jpg Two Planes - Two Planes Glass, steel, paint Variable Detail. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b74e4b025268d963ce8/53e1d13fe4b09a5661056944/1408383354262/Matt-Looking-small-18.jpg Two Planes - Two Planes Glass, steel, paint Variable “Two Planes” is a simple gesture that begs the question, what is glass but its edge? I often wonder this as I stare at a freshly cut and ground sheet of glass. Presenting two objects that represent the same space but delineate absence by use of two modes creates the “Two planes.” Quarter inch welded steel painted to the color of glasses edge is a remarkable decoy for glass. The second plane is simply a sheet of glass mundane and uninteresting, but activated by the absent space of its counter part. It draws great attention, to what glass is, and what it is in this particular instance, is its edge. (2010) https://www.matthewdayperez.com/the-sun daily 0.75 2014-08-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a8de4b0a7cd79308157/53e1b014e4b0a6bee90ea3ef/1408384479204/ The Sun - The Sun Stop animation video Variable When a ladle, a metal dish with a sturdy handle, is plunged into the furnace and pulls a mass of molten glass up and out of the small door, it is like gathering from the surface of the sun and retrieving a puddle of light in your arms. It is a searing mass of curious material that seems to have come from another time and place. “The Sun” is a three-minute stop anima- tion video of glass ladled from the furnace into a round steel mold. Each image bleeds to the next giving the illusion you are staring literally into the sun, full of solar flares and hot spots the orbiting shape remains in flux. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f23e17e4b01477a24f2f7a/1408384479204/ The Sun - The Sun Stop animation video Variable When a ladle, a metal dish with a sturdy handle, is plunged into the furnace and pulls a mass of molten glass up and out of the small door, it is like gathering from the surface of the sun and retrieving a puddle of light in your arms. It is a searing mass of curious material that seems to have come from another time and place. “The Sun” is a three-minute stop anima- tion video of glass ladled from the furnace into a round steel mold. Each image bleeds to the next giving the illusion you are staring literally into the sun, full of solar flares and hot spots the orbiting shape remains in flux. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a8de4b0a7cd79308157/53e1b0c3e4b04a0a09fd2c79/1408384535489/DSC_0301_2.jpg The Sun - The Sun Stop animation video Variable Detail, installation view. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a8de4b0a7cd79308157/53e1b115e4b043d649a83964/1408384522775/Sun+Still+Image.jpg The Sun - The Sun Stop animation video Variable When a ladle, a metal dish with a sturdy handle, is plunged into the furnace and pulls a mass of molten glass up and out of the small door, it is like gathering from the surface of the sun and retrieving a puddle of light in your arms. It is a searing mass of curious material that seems to have come from another time and place. “The Sun” is a three-minute stop anima- tion video of glass ladled from the furnace into a round steel mold. Each image bleeds to the next giving the illusion you are staring literally into the sun, full of solar flares and hot spots the orbiting shape remains in flux. (2010) https://www.matthewdayperez.com/cast-glass daily 0.75 2014-08-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f23dafe4b0eb88c8d8af60/1408383715871/Perez03+copy.jpg Cast Glass - Filtering Light Cast and cold worked glass. 20in x 14in x 6in Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d2f3e4b06e18da74d374/1408383715871/Perez03+copy.jpg Cast Glass - Filtering Light Cast and cold worked glass. 20in x 14in x 6in Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d48ee4b0a265a93bb07b/1408383762628/IMG_0019.JPG Cast Glass - Filtering Light Cast and cold worked glass 20in x 14in x 6in Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d2ffe4b06e18da74d380/1408384203837/Perez01+copy.jpg Cast Glass - Sending Light Cast and cold worked glass 17in x 17in x 13in Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light. (2010)   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d30ee4b06e18da74d38b/1408383854010/Perez02+copy.jpg Cast Glass - Sending Light Cast and cold worked glass 17in x 17in x 13in Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d2b3e4b06e18da74d32f/1408383974069/Perez05+copy.jpg Cast Glass - Weaving with Light Cast glass, cold worked, aluminum, mini nuts/bolts. 7ft x 5ft x 4in Individual links cast together creates a permeable glass scrim. Each link holds light like a faceted diamond. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d2c8e4b06e18da74d343/1408383924860/Perez06+copy.jpg Cast Glass - Weaving with Light Cast glass, cold worked, aluminum, mini nuts/bolts 7ft x 5ft x 4in Individual links cast together creates a permeable glass scrim. Each link holds light like a faceted diamond. (2007) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d2dbe4b06e18da74d357/1408384057860/Perez07+copy.jpg Cast Glass - Geode #1 Cast glass, cold worked, copper wire, steel 17" x 11" x 11" Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d2e4e4b06e18da74d362/1408384089902/Perez09+copy.jpg Cast Glass - Geode #2 Cast glass, cold worked, copper wire, steel 19" x 7" x 4" Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d37de4b06e18da74d3cc/1408384231881/Matthew+Day+Perez.022.jpg Cast Glass - Sending Light #11 Cast and cold worked glass 6" x 8" x 43" Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light. (2012)   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d35ce4b06e18da74d3bf/1408384246658/detail.jpg Cast Glass - Sending Light #11 Cast and cold worked glass 6" x 8" x 43" Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d390e4b06e18da74d3d8/1408384301281/Matthew+Day+Perez.047.jpg Cast Glass - Sending Light #10 Cast and cold worked glass 18" x 14" x 7" Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d4c1e4b0a265a93bb099/1408384403386/IMG_0063.JPG Cast Glass - Filtering Light #2 Cast and cold worked glass 15" x 15" x 22" Experimenting with the space of the mold, I simultaneously create model and mold. The glass acts as a conduit for light. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03a9ee4b0bb0c827eb264/53e1d4a8e4b0a265a93bb08b/1408384431810/IMG_0064.JPG Cast Glass - Sending Light #2 Cast and cold worked glass 15" x 15" x 22" Detail. (2010) https://www.matthewdayperez.com/follow daily 0.75 2014-08-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e02d02e4b092e63a26dcd5/53e03051e4b0a86a2dbfef01/1407296338221/ Follow - Follow Beveled and mirrored glass, steel, silicone, paint 67” x 4” x 85” Follow is comprised of 750 silvered bevels designed, and cold worked, to gently sag and marry seamlessly to a welded steel frame. The work was designed for the smoke stack gallery located in the Canberra Glass works. It follows 1/12th the curve of the historic space and takes its visual cues from the surrounding brickwork. (2012)   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f2321ee4b042d08eda7b4f/1407296338221/ Follow - Follow Beveled and mirrored glass, steel, silicone, paint 67” x 4” x 85” Follow is comprised of 750 silvered bevels designed, and cold worked, to gently sag and marry seamlessly to a welded steel frame. The work was designed for the smoke stack gallery located in the Canberra Glass works. It follows 1/12th the curve of the historic space and takes its visual cues from the surrounding brickwork. (2012)   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e02d02e4b092e63a26dcd5/53e0434ae4b05d204a9a400a/1407754612159/ Follow - Follow Beveled and mirrored glass, steel, silicone, paint 67” x 4" x 85" Follow is comprised of 750 silvered bevels designed, and cold worked, to gently sag and marry seamlessly to a welded steel frame. The work was designed for the smoke stack gallery located in the Canberra Glass works. It follows 1/12th the curve of the historic space and takes its visual cues from the surrounding brickwork. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e02d02e4b092e63a26dcd5/53e23560e4b0a2e10b54233f/1408381470742/Follow+detail.jpg Follow - Follow Beveled and mirrored glass, steel, silicone, paint 67” x 4" x 85" Detail. (2012) https://www.matthewdayperez.com/color daily 0.75 2014-08-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b9be4b0ea65de1676ab/53f24b2ee4b003d538bf70cc/1408414692514/Looking+Looking+Through.jpg Color - Looking At/Looking Through Water color on paper 42" x 32" A painter/illustrator was commissioned to depict glass as he "looked" through as well as "at" through. This is that representation. (2009) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f2b3e4e4b06249a09c7f1c/1408414692514/Looking+Looking+Through.jpg Color - Looking At/Looking Through Water color on paper 42" x 32" A painter/illustrator was commissioned to depict glass as he "looked" through as well as "at" through. This is that representation. (2009) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b9be4b0ea65de1676ab/53f24b3ce4b003d538bf70f7/1408389572729/Indigo.jpg Color - Indigo Oil on primed canvas 32" x 20" A tube of indigo oil paint was smeared on primed canvas. I once asked a painter what color was the most common to depict a pane of glass. They replied "indigo while of course." So "of course" this is a pane of glass. (2009) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b9be4b0ea65de1676ab/53f24bc3e4b0685eabc6f1f2/1408389554913/Color+close+up.jpg Color - Indigo Oil on primed canvas 32" x 20" Detail. (2009) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b9be4b0ea65de1676ab/53f24b45e4b003d538bf7106/1408389624218/Color+of+clear.jpg Color - Lamp Video loop of glass cooling Variable (2009) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b9be4b0ea65de1676ab/53f24b51e4b003d538bf7139/1408389676303/Web+image+007.jpg Color - Color Installation Variable Variable (2009) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b9be4b0ea65de1676ab/53f25268e4b0aeabef895041/1408389905738/Perez_Matt_08.jpg Color - Lens Prismacolor on paper 55" x 42" Staring at a glass lens obsessively I wondered what colors lived in the curiously clear object; so I began to draw, and through this action of drawing, to find the various colors of clear. Not having used colorfast materials the drawing has since begun to fade in the exposure to sunlight. (2010)   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e03b9be4b0ea65de1676ab/53f25373e4b0f3e26e35c93d/1408390150189/outside+color+of+clear.jpg Color - The Color of Clear Digital file Variable 3,000 color samples of glass compressed into a single color. (2009/2010) https://www.matthewdayperez.com/pattern daily 0.75 2014-08-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab78e4b04613ef67e04e/53e1cfffe4b0d6343fae686f/1408382969909/Perez_Matt_09.jpg Pattern - Pattern for/from Wholeness A large sheet of glass, lead, wood, steel 84” x 48” x 4” A sheet of highly reflective clear glass is broken, carefully reconstructed, and leaded. The large glass is displayed upright and consumes the reflections of the room appliquéing its broken body onto the environment. The clearness melts away and all that remains is the exaltation of the brokenness, the pattern. (2011) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f238cee4b0f7f514e6dd8b/1408382969909/Perez_Matt_09.jpg Pattern - Pattern for/from Wholeness A large sheet of glass, lead, wood, steel 84” x 48” x 4” A sheet of highly reflective clear glass is broken, carefully reconstructed, and leaded. The large glass is displayed upright and consumes the reflections of the room appliquéing its broken body onto the environment. The clearness melts away and all that remains is the exaltation of the brokenness, the pattern. (2011) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab78e4b04613ef67e04e/53e1cfd7e4b0d6343fae685a/1408383028774/Matthew_Day_Perez013.jpg Pattern - Pattern For/From Wholeness A large sheet of glass, lead, wood, steel 84” x 48” x 4” Detail. (2011) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab78e4b04613ef67e04e/53e1d016e4b0d6343fae687b/1408383139205/Perez_Matt_06.jpg Pattern - Quality Of Line Printed Matter 114” x 18” Cracks from Providence Rhode Island are photographed while walking, travel- ing, and exploring; the images are then knitted together and collaged to create a continuous gestural line. Cracks are a curious thing. As we try to build, construct, and mark the land it seems that the movement and subtle shifts of the earth begin to draw on what has been created. (2010) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab78e4b04613ef67e04e/53e1d025e4b0d6343fae688a/1408383182585/Perez_Matt_07.jpg Pattern - Quality Of Line Printed matter 114” x 18” Detail. (2010) https://www.matthewdayperez.com/break-mend daily 0.75 2014-08-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f237e1e4b01c5e392174c8/1408382484347/Matthew+Day+Perez.051.jpg Break & Mend - Break & Mend #8 Broken, fused, and mirrored glass 20” x 17” x .5” Interested in glass’ capacity to both break and mend by the application of heat, this work manifests, in the simplest terms, how glass behaves. Part cathartic, part eulogistic the “Break and Mend” series exalts the fracture while exploiting chance and the often - the uncontrollable nature of glass. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab58e4b04613ef67e02b/53e1b393e4b0e29b9ce4aae1/1408382484347/Matthew+Day+Perez.051.jpg Break & Mend - Break & Mend #8 Broken, fused, and mirrored glass 20” x 17” x .5” Interested in glass’ capacity to both break and mend by the application of heat, this work manifests, in the simplest terms, how glass behaves. Part cathartic, part eulogistic the “Break and Mend” series exalts the fracture while exploiting chance and the often - the uncontrollable nature of glass. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab58e4b04613ef67e02b/53e1b373e4b0e29b9ce4aabc/1408382940666/Matthew+Day+Perez.023.jpg Break & Mend - Break & Mend #9 Broken, fused, and mirrored glass 18" x 28" x .5" Interested in glass’ capacity to both break and mend by the application of heat, this work manifests, in the simplest terms, how glass behaves. Part cathartic, part eulogistic the “Break and Mend” series exalts the fracture while exploiting chance and the often - the uncontrollable nature of glass. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab58e4b04613ef67e02b/53e1b382e4b0e29b9ce4aad3/1408382669237/Matthew+Day+Perez.049.jpg Break & Mend - Break & Mend #10 Broken, fused, and mirrored glass 35" x 20" x .5" Interested in glass’ capacity to both break and mend by the application of heat, this work manifests, in the simplest terms, how glass behaves. Part cathartic, part eulogistic the “Break and Mend” series exalts the fracture while exploiting chance and the often - the uncontrollable nature of glass. (2012)   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab58e4b04613ef67e02b/53e1b3aae4b0e29b9ce4aaed/1408382568110/Matthew+Day+Perez.006.jpg Break & Mend - Break & Mend Installation view of Break & Mend #8/#10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab58e4b04613ef67e02b/53e1b4e1e4b048ac9e92d9b9/1408382411136/Matthew_Day_Perez_Final.jpg Break & Mend - Break & Mend #13 Broken, fused, and mirrored glass 53" x 17" x .5 Interested in glass’ capacity to both break and mend by the application of heat, this work manifests, in the simplest terms, how glass behaves. Part cathartic, part eulogistic the “Break and Mend” series exalts the fracture while exploiting chance and the often - the uncontrollable nature of glass. 2013 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1ab58e4b04613ef67e02b/53e1b4a6e4b048ac9e92d98e/1408382424715/Matthew_Day_Perez_Detail.jpg Break & Mend Broken, fused, and mirrored glass 53" x 17" x .5" Detail. (2013)   https://www.matthewdayperez.com/grow daily 0.75 2014-08-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/t/53f23355e4b0efdf11f4a9a7/1408381678667/ Grow - Grow Kiln, video projection, terra-cotta flower pot, glass vitrine, fan, steel, wood, quartz, glass Variable “Grow” consists of two components. In one corner of the installation a video projection depicts a molten landscape, a garden of glowing material. At various moments within the video loop, glass vessels and vases inexplicably grow, just as a flower blooms, or a blade of grass thrusts upward through a mound of dirt; pitchers, cups, mugs, and wine glasses mature and are plucked from a glowing plot of soil. Opposite the video, situated in the center of the room, a glowing chamber houses a crucible of molten glass. The electric kiln is outfitted with a clear quartz lid allowing the viewer to witness the elements flicker on and off supplying the energy necessary to maintain a liquid consistency. This unit is a green house, an incubator, a nursery of sorts from which the molten material is transformed into useful and pragmatic objects depicted within the video. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1b80de4b0038c0bb10936/53e1b8afe4b00d9c630b20c7/1408381678667/ Grow - Grow Kiln, video projection, terra-cotta flower pot, glass vitrine, fan, steel, wood, quartz, glass Variable “Grow” consists of two components. In one corner of the installation a video projection depicts a molten landscape, a garden of glowing material. At various moments within the video loop, glass vessels and vases inexplicably grow, just as a flower blooms, or a blade of grass thrusts upward through a mound of dirt; pitchers, cups, mugs, and wine glasses mature and are plucked from a glowing plot of soil. Opposite the video, situated in the center of the room, a glowing chamber houses a crucible of molten glass. The electric kiln is outfitted with a clear quartz lid allowing the viewer to witness the elements flicker on and off supplying the energy necessary to maintain a liquid consistency. This unit is a green house, an incubator, a nursery of sorts from which the molten material is transformed into useful and pragmatic objects depicted within the video. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1b80de4b0038c0bb10936/53e1b9dee4b08902535212ce/1408381754513/Grow+01.jpg Grow - Grow Kiln, video projection, terra-cotta flower pot, glass vitrine, fan, steel, wood, quartz, glass Variable “Grow” consists of two components. In one corner of the installation a video projection depicts a molten landscape, a garden of glowing material. At various moments within the video loop, glass vessels and vases inexplicably grow, just as a flower blooms, or a blade of grass thrusts upward through a mound of dirt; pitchers, cups, mugs, and wine glasses mature and are plucked from a glowing plot of soil. Opposite the video, situated in the center of the room, a glowing chamber houses a crucible of molten glass. The electric kiln is outfitted with a clear quartz lid allowing the viewer to witness the elements flicker on and off supplying the energy necessary to maintain a liquid consistency. This unit is a green house, an incubator, a nursery of sorts from which the molten material is transformed into useful and pragmatic objects depicted within the video. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1b80de4b0038c0bb10936/53e1b9f9e4b08902535212e3/1408381761892/Grow+02.jpg Grow - Grow Kiln, video projection, terra-cotta flower pot, glass vitrine, fan, steel, wood, quartz, glass Variable “Grow” consists of two components. In one corner of the installation a video projection depicts a molten landscape, a garden of glowing material. At various moments within the video loop, glass vessels and vases inexplicably grow, just as a flower blooms, or a blade of grass thrusts upward through a mound of dirt; pitchers, cups, mugs, and wine glasses mature and are plucked from a glowing plot of soil. Opposite the video, situated in the center of the room, a glowing chamber houses a crucible of molten glass. The electric kiln is outfitted with a clear quartz lid allowing the viewer to witness the elements flicker on and off supplying the energy necessary to maintain a liquid consistency. This unit is a green house, an incubator, a nursery of sorts from which the molten material is transformed into useful and pragmatic objects depicted within the video. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1b80de4b0038c0bb10936/53e1ba92e4b09609be935f05/1408381768776/grow+03.jpg Grow - Grow Kiln, video projection, terra-cotta flower pot, glass vitrine, fan, steel, wood, quartz, glass Variable “Grow” consists of two components. In one corner of the installation a video projection depicts a molten landscape, a garden of glowing material. At various moments within the video loop, glass vessels and vases inexplicably grow, just as a flower blooms, or a blade of grass thrusts upward through a mound of dirt; pitchers, cups, mugs, and wine glasses mature and are plucked from a glowing plot of soil. Opposite the video, situated in the center of the room, a glowing chamber houses a crucible of molten glass. The electric kiln is outfitted with a clear quartz lid allowing the viewer to witness the elements flicker on and off supplying the energy necessary to maintain a liquid consistency. This unit is a green house, an incubator, a nursery of sorts from which the molten material is transformed into useful and pragmatic objects depicted within the video. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1b80de4b0038c0bb10936/53e1bab6e4b09609be935f28/1407754697861/Grow+04.jpg Grow - Grow Kiln, video projection, terra-cotta flower pot, glass vitrine, fan, steel, wood, quartz, glass Variable “Grow” consists of two components. In one corner of the installation a video projection depicts a molten landscape, a garden of glowing material. At various moments within the video loop, glass vessels and vases inexplicably grow, just as a flower blooms, or a blade of grass thrusts upward through a mound of dirt; pitchers, cups, mugs, and wine glasses mature and are plucked from a glowing plot of soil. Opposite the video, situated in the center of the room, a glowing chamber houses a crucible of molten glass. The electric kiln is outfitted with a clear quartz lid allowing the viewer to witness the elements flicker on and off supplying the energy necessary to maintain a liquid consistency. This unit is a green house, an incubator, a nursery of sorts from which the molten material is transformed into useful and pragmatic objects depicted within the video. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1b80de4b0038c0bb10936/53e1babfe4b09609be935f35/1408381781951/Kiln+diagram.jpg Grow - Grow Kiln, video projection, terra-cotta flower pot, glass vitrine, fan, steel, wood, quartz, glass Variable Schematic. (2012) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53e01bade4b0a8cfa36a9e96/53e1b80de4b0038c0bb10936/53e1bad7e4b09609be935f6c/1408381776414/Grow.jpg Grow - Grow Kiln, video projection, terra-cotta flower pot, glass vitrine, fan, steel, wood, quartz, glass Variable Video Still. 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