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      <image:caption>The sleek contrast of the vibrant rainbow hues evoke a vibrant high energy aesthetic of 1980’s disco culture and club 84 . This hand-crafted piece merges retro-futurism with contemporary glass artistry making a statement in both form and function.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2024-12-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Recent Work - 'CROMMAEA'  2021  Marta Gorski and Alana Biffert</image:title>
      <image:caption>Our installation is a multimedia work that includes photo images printed on vellum that are highly pixelated and distorted as we want these images to read as a universal and familiar skin. The photographs are set behind hand-polished lenses and peep holes to accent and further distort the imagery; inviting the viewer to investigate. This work explores what it means to be seen and be vulnerable without shame. ‘CROMMAEA’ is self-identity, creating our own illusions and distortions, at a macro level, each layer composed by perspectives of the body with the proposed idea of radical acceptance. We want there to be a particular quality of morality felt through the familiar textures and folds found within the imagery. To initiate a compassionate, present, mindfulness and create a curious connection with each discovery. Inspiring the ability within each of us to rehumanize the gaze.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Recent Work - 'CROMMAEA' 2021- Marta Gorski and Alana Biffert</image:title>
      <image:caption>What does mindful online posting look like and how can we be sure we are not being misled when we are the onlooker? The answer is scary: The truth is these questions are only now starting to come up and the answers are just as unclear as the questions that we should be asking ourselves when we choose to share parts of our lives with the entire world. As the media continues to evolve, we need to evolve with the media and cultivate literacy with our online presence. It is important to have the tools to build intellectual connections during this global lock down and pandemic. Evolve, liberate, what works? Culturally and economically the world has come to slow down, and people are having to listen to their bodies more. Our fast-paced lives are no longer propelling us through each day on fast forward, no one is pressed with the obligation to go to work with a cold. Lockdowns and shutouts have left us with an abundance of personal time and less human contact. People are turning to their computers to get through the lack of interaction as connection is one of our more prevalent human desires. Within the structure of pausing, inspired people have surfaced on social media offering free group fitness classes and free education. People are starting to meet online to share video feeds allowing the world to come together to maintain our minds, bodies and spirits. Right now, we are all in the discomfort of this together, doing what we can to meet our social needs and attempting to be comfortable.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Collaborating since 2012, both women focus their art on human interaction. In Crommaea, they consider the consequence of intimacy and the impact relationships leave on the psyche. To perceive the truth of these interactions relies heavily on the viewer’s own self-awareness. Marta is endlessly inspired by human figures, both the physicality of the body and the interactions it has with others. Using the body as a landscape, her works aim to present macro and micro views of socialization. She focuses on generating various perspectives, detailing concepts through position, circumstance, and experiences. Alana Biffert focuses her energy on concept-driven, large-scale installations; her works surround the permanent impressions left and deterioration of what once was. Oftentimes her attention is driven by details absorbed through nature's discourse. An obsession fed regularly through the pursuit of inflicted and observed reactions. Often driven by process and material. Recently both Alana Biffert and Marta Gorski, exhibited their work 'Crommaea' in the window of Pilchuck's Seattle Gallery. They were both very excited to be represented by such a well known name in the world of glass. This particular exhibition was accompanied by a request for digital content. This gave them a chance to think further about the context of their work and audience which lead them to an interview with Dr Jenniffer Gunsaullus. Both felt it was a great experience and a positive challenge . It created a new format to discuss values, message and delivery. It’s something that will be carried forward in the future within our art practice to support the depth of our process.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Recent Work - CROMMAEA: a discussion of online presence and perception</image:title>
      <image:caption>CROMMAEA Exhibition Explores Physical Presence and Online Identity Hybrid in-person/online installation on view in Pioneer Square through April 30 Seattle, WA – A new window exhibition at Pilchuck Glass School’s downtown space in Pioneer Square turns the sidewalk into a mini museum. Artists Alana Biffert and Marta Gorski have teamed up to install CROMMAEA, a layered examination of our physical bodies and our digital world. The piece combines carved glass lenses with pixelated photographs printed on vellum, the whole thing bathed in the soft pink glow of neon lights. Stop and look: perhaps through one glass peephole you’ll notice the distorted image of an eye, larger than life; through another, a pair of lips. “This work is about voyeurism, body image, and the double-ended perspective of the lens,” Biffert and Gorski share. “[It] explores what it means to be seen and be vulnerable without shame.” Themes that have come into sharp focus during the past year of isolation and online connection—like mindfulness, self-presentation, and visual consumption—surface in the work as questions and invite further reflection. “In a global grab for attention, we spend our days scrolling for relevance,” the artists explain. “We flip through shot after shot with flaring opinions as humans slip in and out of the land of objecthood… This is an exploration of the digital era, not a criticism. It’s about bridging the gap between the people in front of and behind the screen.” To add richness to the themes CROMMAEA addresses, Biffert and Gorski sat down with sociologist, communication coach, and author Dr. Jennifer Gunsaullus for a digital interview. The three discuss mindfulness, authenticity, and the facets of ourselves we choose to conceal or reveal as we curate our online identities. “As we have thoughts and emotions and worries and fears, we can kindly, compassionately train our brains to pay more attention in the present moment and not judge what’s going on,” Dr. Gunsaullus explains at the opening of the conversation. This interview, as well as images of the CROMMAEA installation in Pioneer Square, are available to explore and enjoy on the website of Pilchuck Glass School: pilchuck.org/exhibitions. CROMMAEA will be on view through April 30, 2021. It is the first in a series of window exhibitions by Pilchuck artists this year, each of which will include a digital component. Pilchuck Glass School is grateful to Historic South Downtown, which generously helped fund this exhibition series. Pilchuck Glass School (pilcuck.org) is an international center for glass art education with a teaching campus in Stanwood, WA and an exhibition and event space in Seattle’s Pioneer Square. Since its founding in 1971 by renowned artist Dale Chihuly, Pilchuck has drawn students and instructors from across the world to learn and share through immersive, in-depth workshops. The school also offers a variety of residencies for emerging and established artists and partners with museums and youth programs to inspire creativity and exploration in glass.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tempo; Spans across the Devonian gardens over three separate locations of water: the Boardwalk, Goldfish pond and Koi pond. It emphasizes the erratic qualities of water and the way it refracts light. Mirrored by the glass, its capability to attain unusual forms whilst maintaining a connection with light. A study that engulfs the viewer in the language of glass through the capricious demise of a piece of mother nature. The process of making these is an obscure one that speaks to the conceptual umbrella of opulence and its content. Glass is a reactive material in its molten state. Gravity and centrifugal force are both vigorous in this process. The procedure is repetitive, experimental and destructive. This work stems from the ideology of breaking away from tradition and finding a new unconventional process. A ladle of hot molten glass is poured onto a steel table to form a circular patty, then this patty is picked up and flipped onto the top of the log. As the glass starts to engulf the wood, centrifugal force is added to the recipe. The wood endures the persistent heat, although perishable, it’s recollect lives on. An authentic consequence of divided energy in a split moment of time. Two materials revel in the release of centrifugal force, preserving the humble, impermeable moment of time in the solid, cold glass. Now transposed into a different environment, transmitting light, established for eternity. These discoveries have taken their physical form, suspended individually and hung from the ceiling as a celebration of water and its pervasive interaction with light. The centrifugal hot glass castings are tension set into place and secured like the spinal cord of time, each vertebra a necessity and universally revolved. It speaks to the cellular construction of time ticking past. Though the work is not meant to focus on the metal, it is considered. The constricting aspects of the steel and tight spacing represent of the perpetual pendulums of unabated time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tempo; Spans across the Devonian gardens over three separate locations of water: the Boardwalk, Goldfish pond and Koi pond. It emphasizes the erratic qualities of water and the way it refracts light. Mirrored by the glass, its capability to attain unusual forms whilst maintaining a connection with light. A study that engulfs the viewer in the language of glass through the capricious demise of a piece of mother nature. The process of making these is an obscure one that speaks to the conceptual umbrella of opulence and its content. Glass is a reactive material in its molten state. Gravity and centrifugal force are both vigorous in this process. The procedure is repetitive, experimental and destructive. This work stems from the ideology of breaking away from tradition and finding a new unconventional process. A ladle of hot molten glass is poured onto a steel table to form a circular patty, then this patty is picked up and flipped onto the top of the log. As the glass starts to engulf the wood, centrifugal force is added to the recipe. The wood endures the persistent heat, although perishable, it’s recollect lives on. An authentic consequence of divided energy in a split moment of time. Two materials revel in the release of centrifugal force, preserving the humble, impermeable moment of time in the solid, cold glass. Now transposed into a different environment, transmitting light, established for eternity. These discoveries have taken their physical form, suspended individually and hung from the ceiling as a celebration of water and its pervasive interaction with light. The centrifugal hot glass castings are tension set into place and secured like the spinal cord of time, each vertebra a necessity and universally revolved. It speaks to the cellular construction of time ticking past. Though the work is not meant to focus on the metal, it is considered. The constricting aspects of the steel and tight spacing represent the perpetual pendulums of unabated time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tempo; Spans across the Devonian gardens over three separate locations of water: the Boardwalk, Goldfish pond and Koi pond. It emphasizes the erratic qualities of water and the way it refracts light. Mirrored by the glass, its capability to attain unusual forms whilst maintaining a connection with light. A study that engulfs the viewer in the language of glass through the capricious demise of a piece of mother nature. The process of making these is an obscure one that speaks to the conceptual umbrella of opulence and its content. Glass is a reactive material in its molten state. Gravity and centrifugal force are both vigorous in this process. The procedure is repetitive, experimental and destructive. This work stems from the ideology of breaking away from tradition and finding a new unconventional process. A ladle of hot molten glass is poured onto a steel table to form a circular patty, then this patty is picked up and flipped onto the top of the log. As the glass starts to engulf the wood, centrifugal force is added to the recipe. The wood endures the persistent heat, although perishable, it’s recollect lives on. An authentic consequence of divided energy in a split moment of time. Two materials revel in the release of centrifugal force, preserving the humble, impermeable moment of time in the solid, cold glass. Now transposed into a different environment, transmitting light, established for eternity. These discoveries have taken their physical form, suspended individually and hung from the ceiling as a celebration of water and its pervasive interaction with light. The centrifugal hot glass castings are tension set into place and secured like the spinal cord of time, each vertebra a necessity and universally revolved. It speaks to the cellular construction of time ticking past. Though the work is not meant to focus on the metal, it is considered. The constricting aspects of the steel and tight spacing represent the perpetual pendulums of unabated time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Umbra; is constructed from recycled glass. The name comes from the Latin language and translates to shadow of a tree. The foundation of my work surrounds the permanent impressions left and deterioration of what once was. In this instance, my attention is driven by details absorbed through nature's discourse. Whether it is the natural attrition in social situations or a wider exploration into the pursuit of inflicted and observed reactions, the unshackling of these observations explore the relationship glass can have with light. The supercilious heat of the glass will always take something away from the wood. Though glass is incompatible with most foreign material, I know that the relationship between wood and glass can be harmonious. The wood is found present in the finished product, embedded and integrated into the glass. Often, I will take the wood and reduce its form to ashes. Knowing it will submit itself to the glass plays a large part in the pairing of these two materials. The wood has no choice, it will succumb to the heat of the glass. It will deteriorate. In a metaphorical sense, this is an investigation into the preservation of our environment and our irrevocable eminence left behind. Each piece of glass was hot poured into the crevasse of a found log. This process was repeated until the wood could no longer hold the glass. The permanent print of an exchange.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In my latest body of work, titled "Preservation," I delve into the concept of containment. These compositions feature containers suspended within vessels, sealed with lids, emblematic of tight confinement. The intention behind this arrangement serves as a metaphor for the tension that arises from mandates and restrictions, an issue that has permeated our lives on both personal and global scales. As an artist, I view the act of creation as a journey through moments of profound introspection. The period of isolation, thrust upon us by the global pandemic, has offered ample time for contemplation. It forced us into unfamiliar territory, where the unknown became our daily reality. It is the artist's duty to unearth the hidden beauty within such unfamiliarity. My work, at its core, delves into the authentic repercussions of the passage of time. Time, a profound force, imbues our existence with meaning as it flows ceaselessly forward. It marks both the beginning and the end of our individual journeys. While the concept of death may seem dark and looming, it is this very impermanence that bestows beauty upon life. Without the finality of death, existence would lose its meaning, and life itself would become relative to an eternal void. It is the time between these two points that gives life its purpose and significance. The "Preservation" series explores the idea of confinement through containment, akin to suspended memories locked within vessels. These vessels encapsulate not only our freedoms but also our rights. The first ensemble, rendered in monochromatic tones, symbolizes the specter of death. A transparent grey vase stands in juxtaposition to a long, sleek, pointed black container, suspended within, crowned by a white lid. On a global scale, the pandemic thrust us into a state of isolation, a period during which we yearned for human connection, longing for the company of those who matter most to us. Regardless of circumstances, we were denied the opportunity to properly mourn our departed loved ones, as funerals and related services faced prohibitions. Even hospital visitations became limited to a mere one-person allowance per week. These lockdowns have stripped us of control over our freedoms, underlining the profound interconnectedness of human existence—the very fabric of our being. The series comprises various compilations of colors, each representing a universal facet of our diverse cultural tapestry, our collective vertebrate. The inner, suspended vessels in this series culminate in pointed tips—a metaphor for the mandated vaccinations that have impacted our rights and freedoms on an unprecedented scale. The option to make a living, travel, socialize, and participate in society in any capacity has become contingent upon one's double vaccination status here in Canada. This series serves as an artistic exploration of the consequences of these mandates, inviting viewers to reflect on the profound societal changes we've experienced. In "Preservation," I aim to provoke contemplation and dialogue about the balance between safety measures and individual freedoms, with an unapologetically thought-provoking perspective.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Explore 'Preservation' by Alana Biffert, a profound artistic journey delving into confinement and the impact of mandates. Uncover the thought-provoking narrative behind this series that invites reflection on societal changes. Witness artistry that boldly addresses the intersection of safety measures and individual freedoms.</image:caption>
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