The Fifth Garland" reimagines the Met's Roman Glass Garland Bowl (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/c...The Fifth Garland" reimagines the Met's Roman Glass Garland Bowl (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/c...
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The Fifth Garland" reimagines the Met's Roman Glass Garland Bowl (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245787) — the only surviving Roman glass vessel combining large cast-glass sections with fused millefiori mosaic decoration, each quadrant holding its own small garland.In antiquity, this bowl displayed private wealth. This installation imagines the same four garlands activated together: four visitors each touch a coloured section, and light travels from each quadrant toward the centre, converging into a new, fifth garland that could not exist from any single section alone.
The bowl’s original meaning was possession. The Fifth Garland’s meaning is what possession cannot produce: collective creation.
Built in FLORA using the Met’s public-domain photograph as a strict visual reference, the work was refined through multiple composition and material passes to preserve the bowl’s recognizable form while imagining its transformation into an interactive museum installation.
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