Author: fglidden
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Trashquilt
On February 15, 2016, I read this photo caption in the New York Times “Recology, San Francisco’s main recycling plant collects 100 tons of cardboard every day.” I had already started collecting plastic, cardboard, and wax paper that surrounds the food which I buy at the grocery store. We shop online and I am surrounded…
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Matris Fe
This series of cast iron sculptures was intended to be a series of 17 sculptures and was from a dream vision. In the dream, there were a series of cast iron furnaces that were overflowing with iron. It was an all women iron pour. The sculptures came out of the furnace fully formed. To…
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Immersion
Immersion was a 2010 sound installation of a hexagon-shaped room with speakers built into the walls and sand on the floor. Layers of text from dreams with water (in any form) were layered with music and collected sounds. Immersion drywall, wood, speakers, paint, sand, pillows, led lights, Dolby 5.1 Surround, 34 min 8_Immersion_sound_clip
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Ped Pex Power Pod
A 2009 Art shanty project, this was an experiment in whether our guests could generate enough electricity using pedal power to boil water and make coffee in an ice house on the a frozen lake. I collaborated with my siblings Veronica and Colin Glidden and for 5 weekends (+Weds.) we were on Medicine Lake…