Ghosts
Ghosts is a series of hand-blown glass replicas from Bilad al-Sham (Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon), based on ancient glass vessels now held in Western institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Penn Museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum. The series functions both as a critique of the provenance and displacement of these objects and as an attempt to reintroduce them to the living traditions of craft to which they once belonged. Each replica was produced by contemporary Palestinian glassblowers who continue to sustain and transmit this centuries-old knowledge, reconnecting archaeological objects with the artisanal practices and contexts from which they originally emerged.
This work is now in permanent collections at the Corning Museum of Glass.
