https://391.b00.mywebsitetransfer.com/jill-baroff/ Fri, 08 Jul 2022 01:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://391.b00.mywebsitetransfer.com/jill-baroff/#comment-10 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:20:48 +0000 http://artequalstext.aboutdrawing.org/?p=19#comment-10 As the waves wash repeatedly over the shore, they toss countless minute grains of sand up and down the beach, following the pattern of the tides. The tides themselves are driven by the gravitational action of the sun and the moon. To me, this drawing resembles a heavy glass plate, formed when a hot fire, evocative of the fires of the sun, melts and transforms the quartz crystals comprising the sands of the beach into glass. Much as the tides and the winds of nature blow the sands of the beach, the skill of the human glass blower creates a utilitarian object of beauty from the amorphous mass of molten glass. Much as the waves endlessly repeat, yet are each unique, the plate serves to render countless meals, each regular in their occurrence, and yet each unique in the details of food and company enjoyed. Much as the sands of the beach exist throughout the millennia of passing time, so too the plate bears witness to the events of human lifetimes. Much as the tides provide structure to nature, so too the plate, in its simplistic beauty and concentric pattern, adds precision and regularity to the lives it touches.

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