Friday, November 13 2009 was the opening of several students' art work at the Petersburg Area Art League. The display consisted primarily of glass work. It was interesting to see a variety of work created in a medium that is completely foreign to me. Joan Biddle discussed her piece, two glass baby dolls with muslin bodies together in a glass jar. She did not explicitly speak of it conceptually, but rather described the process of creating it, involving the plaster casting of an actual baby doll and the construction of the body, which is soft but attaches the glass head and limbs, and the use of twine around the babies' necks.
However, it seemed to me that the description of the process still, in a way, spoke of the piece conceptually. Creating it was an extremely delicate procedure, with seemingly tiny factors threatening to completely destroy all the hard work. This reminded me of pregnancy: a process which takes time and careful attention and can be easily harmed by outside factors. The glass jar then becomes a womb, glass in glass rather than flesh in flesh.
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