Buoy and Orbit

Blanche Tilden
born Australia, 1968

Buoy 03 2016
waterjet cut, coldworked and flameworked borosilicate glass, oxidised sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne

Orbit 02 2016
waterjet cut, coldworked and flameworked borosilicate glass, titanium, oxidised sterling silver
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Funaki, Melbourne

With Buoy and Orbit, Tilden appeals to the wider world outside the domain of the constructed mechanism. With its irregularly alternating glass discs in three sizes, Orbit conjures a constellation (somewhere, anywhere) and even how in social life we revolve around each other, unpredictably. Buoy not only returns us to the sea, but signals the joyous bobbing immersion in water.

—Julie Ewington