Shattered Illusions, Jeffrey Spencer (United States, b. 1951), 1997, glass, 57 3/4 x 42 in. Promised gift of Myrna and Sheldon Palley
The image displays five transparent glass tubes, each containing different types of metal wire and glass figures sometimes wrapped in metal wire. The tubes are horizontally aligned and attached to a wall by a black strip that runs through the middle of them. There are five glass tubes, each capped at both ends with a brownish material, possibly cork or wood. Each tube contains a human-like glass figure that appears to be struggling to escape the tube. The first tube from the left contains coiled wire around a human-like figure. The second tube has what appears to be thin, twisted wires or metallic strings and a glass figure that has escaped the tube through a broken hole. This figure appears to be aiding the figure within the third tube to escape through another hole in that tube. The fourth one contains more coiled wires but in a more chaotic arrangement compared to the first tube and a glass figure that is hanging below the tube by a metal wire. There is a broken hole in this tube that the figure seemed to escape from. The fifth and last tube on the right has metallic wire surrounding a glass human-like figure that has their legs spread wide and both arms raised in the air making X shape across the length of the tube.
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