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The Keck Center art glass is comprised of thirty-two panels of
glass dividing the interior space of a computer laboratory from a
lounge. The artist created its sandblasted images in a unique method
by which she enlarged digitally-scanned photomontages of classical
Greek statuary to actual working scale in order to produce stencils.
Made of gossamer-sheer but very strong film, these stencils were then
affixed to the glass and sandblasted through to etch and in some
places deeply carve the images. Both sides of the glass surface were
treated in this way, causing subtle overlapping and illusions of
depth. These walls of glass serve the functional purpose of screening
the lab from the lounge while still allowing natural light to suffuse
the entire space. Thematically, the images allude to subjects
familiar to the humanities, and particularly to the core curriculum.
Atlas, Hercules and Aphrodite become luminous presences at the center
of student life and learning.
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