Shay Greenblatt

Emotions Illusions

Glass mixing techniques – flameworking, kiln casting, and glass blowing

Average size 20 cm * 45 cm

“God, how strange is it today, I wonder if they changed me at night? Wait, Ill try to remember: Is it me who woke up this morning? I think I remember feeling a little differently. But if it is not me, the question is who am I, for Gods sake? Ah, that’s the big riddle!”

 alice in wonderland alice in wonderland by lewis carroll

We are constantly changing, sometimes fast and dramatically and other times over the course of time without noticing it.

The past year of my life was full of rapid changes, that made me feel I no longer recognize myself and so I had to get reacquainted with myself again.

The glass objects are composed of many complex layers; the external layers are black & white patterns, and the inner layers consists of flesh and blood vessels, express the tension between inside and outside, between body and mind. Each time a different side triumphs the war, sometimes the emotions are shown and sometimes and shell can restrain and contain them.