Long Memphis 1973

Christopher Wilmarth made Long Memphis from glass and wire. Imagine him in the studio, coaxing the glass, bending the wire into these elegantly simple lines. It's a dance between control and letting go. You know, the glass has its own mind. It wants to break, it wants to shatter. But somehow, he got it to curve just so, with those wires holding it all together, like a delicate balance. And those lines, right? They're not just decoration. They're like gestures. Each one a breath, a pause, a movement. Like the artist’s hand dancing. You almost get the sense that they're not just on the surface but embedded within the glass, part of its very being. Wilmarth was in conversation with other great artists of his time, pushing the boundaries of material and form. And that’s the thing about art, isn’t it? We're all just riffing off each other, finding our own way to say something true.