"It is not the components that determine the whole, but the whole that determines the components. The rule and its laws, the whole and the structure, cannot be deduced from a separate acquaintance with the parts that make it up." Life a User's Manual Novel by Georges Perec.


If I change the components order, do we still receive the same impact? Is it meaningful?
The whole is not a simple sum of its parts. The human brain does not perceive through separate units that are not linked together, but only as an organized and meaningful whole. I chose the work of Henri Matisse, The Dance. I printed several copies and started cutting and playing, examine how the division affects the initial image.
What remains of the image, a clear impression or a faint trace? Can the fragments convey a coherent whole? How do we perceive that whole? I cut each piece of the image from colored glass palettes and assembled them into the final image in the order of my choice. I fired the plate in the oven to fuse the glasses and then gathered the pieces into a bubble in the hot workshop. During the process, as I rotated and heated the tool, the pieces became more distorted and expanded from hot to cold.

Cold work, fusing and blowing technique.
2022