The Glass Book

Fred’s Journey

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This fragment is the appropriate one for you to see first.

We see a door and within its frame, we discern a shadowy figure seeking to come through.

Who is he?

Why is he emerging?

Does he have a message for us?

Can he in any way clarify the bafflement we feel for that great irrationality we call “War”?

Artist’s Statement

    From

  • Armelle Le Roux
  • Robert Shank

When Fred first showed me his collection of shards, he pointed out one that was unique. It was mysterious: from an unknown location, burned and yet not broken, and with a ghostly, burned-away figure just visible in the arched doorway. If he were to write a book about the war, Fred said, he would use the image of the shard as its cover. I felt that this piece, mounted as a manuscript or glass book, should introduce the collection.

Artist Information

Specifications

Artists: Armelle Le Roux / Robert Shank
Number of Shards: 1
Dimensions: 18 3⁄4″ × 35 3⁄4″
Medium: fused, slumped, sandblasted and gilded plate glass