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WE ARE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT THIS EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION GLASS SCULPTURE BY NYC-BASED ARTIST MATTHEW F FISHER (B. 1976, BOSTON), PUBLISHED BY CACTUS MOON STUDIO.
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Matthew F Fisher’s (b. 1976, Boston MA) artistic practice contemplates nature’s life cycles and the universe at large using a highly stylised visual language of recurring motifs: frozen waves, statuesque sea shells and crustaceans, monolithic rock formations, soaring gulls, radiating suns, and orbiting planets.
Fisher sees the ocean as a reflective metaphor for the cosmos above; both are vast and mysterious, incomprehensible, alluring, never-ending and perpetually in motion. Although fisher repeatedly alludes to ideas of deep time, the work is born out of personal experience, his own georgaphies, and memories. For Fisher, things must remain close and cosmic simultaneously; sometimes what is felt can only be expressed on the scale of an ocean, an infinite universe.
For this limited-edition series, Fisher translates one of his most recurrent and characteristic icons within his oeuvre from the past decade – the graphic, foam-crested wave – into three-dimensional form using a medium entirely new to his practice: glass. As well as having a material connection to the sand that frequently features in minute detail in his seascapes, translating this icon into an object of permanence using an ancient medium speaks to Fisher’s rumination on timeless subject matters. The nature of glass hot-sculpted by hand means each edition is unique, each wave cresting and forming slightly differently.
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"What I remember most about this time was two things. One, the view of the endless horizon line and mystery of what I couldn't see. The other was the constant soundtrack of the waves breaking on the shore outside. I remember going to bed to that crash, and waking up to it. A reminder to me that while I slept, the world continued to be awake. The grandness of the earth, the systems and routines that have always happened, like clockwork, and that I was just a passive witness to this clock."
- Matthew F Fisher talking about his grandfather's beach house on Long Island
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Behind the Scenes at the Glass Workshop
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MATTHEW F FISHER: Limited Edition Glass Sculpture
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