Author: fglidden
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Believe Me (It’ll be Great)
These paintings evolved from the Trashquilt project. During the 2016 USA election, I started noticing the repetition of the words “Believe me” and “Trust me” as qualifiers. Usually, these words are followed by lies.
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Trashquilt Tête du Travers
This series of large drawings was made surrounding the 2016 US election. The text, “Between the Darkness of the Sun and Moon, ” was written in March 2015, five days after a young pilot intentionally flew an airplane with 149 passengers into the French Alps. I continued working on it in 2017 and began to…
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Landing Vessels
I made these sculptures between 2003 and 2009, as I was learning the process of metal casting at artist residencies using piece molds made of resin bonded sand. For my patterns, I was using rubber balls, oil based clay, natural materials, direct carving and eventually separating the molds and building mother molds around them to…
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First Line from Every Dream
I started mining my dream journals of 25 years in 2010. I began to type them out and then read them aloud into a recorder. I soon realized the first line usually either set the scene, or the cast of character. The written document is 20 pages single spaced. I projected it as a looped…