Primary Description:
Colorless, appearing translucent white, wine-red, turquoise, cobalt blue, amethyst glasses, enamel, granite, red earth, feathers, sterling silver, copper bronzing powder; pate de verre (finely ground glass layered into a two-part refractory mold, fused as one piece in an electric kiln), mixed-media assemblage. Mixed-media composition of four parts assembled into two units; egg-shaped granite boulder naturally split into two equal sections sitting side by side (not touching) each linked with a pâte de verre element: "left" half (female), glass section sits on top of boulder via a concealed silver mount, formed of "white" pâte de verre in assymetrial two-lobed vessel, one open seam edged in black and wine-red and ringed with small feathers covered in bronzing powder standing in miniature springs, upper lobe edge and underside has blue and black coloration; "right" (male) half, pâte de verre tear-drop-shaped boat or pod form, heavy end rests on ground, pointed end rests on granite in chiseled groove and is tipped with a single bronze feather just touching the granite, ovoid slit opening edged in turqoise, body composed of broad even bands of glass color in wine-red, cobalt blue, black, and amethyst; unsigned.