sculpture

With its jutting broken glass, I Spy vividly recalls the violent horrors of Kristallnacht—the “night of broken glass.” On November 9th – 10th, 1938, Nazis decimated Jewish communities throughout Germany and Austria, unleashing the genocidal phase of the Holocaust. Dienes did not experience Kristallnacht firsthand, but these shards, packed in a suitcase, suggest the collective fractures that Jewish people have experienced and often carry with them. And yet the piece is not just about the fracture. It is also about resilience, about composing and organizing the shards of life, and seeing new reflections. This mirrored piece changes all the time, because as Dienes pointed out, reality changes all the time, "Nothing is more positive, nothing is more constant, nothing more certain than change.”