Sentences with phrase «wooden shadowboxes»

This technique has been a focal element of Bell's work since he was in art school and cut scrap glass to fit into the wooden shadowboxes he found at his part - time picture framing job: «The one break in the glass created three lines — One a reflection from the break, one the shadow of the break, and the break itself.

Encapsulated under glass or in wooden shadowboxes, these episodic contemplations are stagings of the discordance between the façade and the fact of the matter, between the romance of our ideals and the corners they work us into.