13 for 2013 | Brynn Dizack: Canis Major
I met with Boston artist Brynn Dizack when she was nearly halfway done with “Madeline,” a conceptual piece made of hand cast cement bottles. She told me she had finished almost a thousand, but still needed more than double that to reach the 2,280 bottles intended for the piece – a number based on the rate of consumption of drinking four to five bottles per day. Brynn fills each empty glass bottle with cement and once it’s dry she cracks and peels away the glass from its dense chalky bottle-shaped interior.
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