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Primary Description:
Colorless non-lead borosilicate rods, colored pencil, oil paint; flameworked glass rods, hand applied decoration. Pyramidal openwork sculpture comprised of horizontal "branches" extending from central vertical "zigzag" rod; branches end in large non-identical snowflakes painted overall opaque white with gold accents and center painted flower blossom; four short-sleeved shirts, each painted on outer surface with intricate plant patterns, are interspersed among snowflakes as are multiple cherry and stem pairs painted in translucent red and green; sculpture stands on six feet/legs; short sections of central branch and legs have painted pattern of red and brown "knots" on a blue background; painted silver script on one curved leg: "93 Ginny Ruffner"; painted green on underside of low branch: "Ginny Ruffner".
Exhibitions (2)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

When Consciousness Sleeps (Where Does It Go?)
Venue(s)
Heller Gallery 1993-09-08 through 1993-10-03
Solo exhibition
Publications (6)
Layering Creative Virtues onto an Object, Part 2: Survey (2009-05)
illustrated, p. 12;
Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2008)
illustrated, p. 24, 146-147 (fig. 40, pate 49);
BIB# 107478