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Gale Scott’s work reflects his multidisciplinary studies of architecture, and sculpture in wood and metal before he began to work with glass. He began to incorporate glass in his sculptures by combining it with copper electroforming -blowing glass into copper shells and by casting glass around copper inclusions.
His work continues to focus on the drama of combining glass and metal techniques as he has sought to develop a personal and unique aesthetic through mixing media, which become interdependent when they are integrated.
His signature “Cages” consists of glass blown into intricate and ordered copper structures . The materials expand and contract at the same rate when heated or cooled allowing them to be combined when the glass is molten. As the two materials cool, the glass does not crack. The result is a soft, pillowing effect where the glass bulges through the openings in the rigid, cage-like structure. His pieces convey this tension of the forces of expansion/ contraction, which are kept at equilibrium.
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