Cercle (Circle)

A sculptor, Bernard Dejonghe (French, b. 1942) worked primarily in ceramics before turning to glass, and he is still involved with both materials. The cold, white blocks of Cercle (Circle) are more evocative of snow and ice than the intense heat of the glass kiln. Dejonghe casts his colorless, optical-quality glass so that it develops a hard, devitrified white crust that is then chiseled. The result is a sculpture that has the depth and clarity of crystal with the rough and tactile surface of weathered glass or stone.