Derek Russell, Snowglobe for Colorado

2022

glass, 3-D print, cast stone

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Snowglobe for Colorado explores the contrast between the embodied experience of a place and the image of one. Growing up in Colorado, seductive images of snow-laden mountain slopes often obscured Russell’s lived reality: The valleys were the epicenter of urban development. At one point, his house could have been close enough to touch the purple slopes of the Rockies; now the space between is filled with endless highways and fast-food chains. As Russell puts it, “I always tell people that I grew up in the Rockies; while this is not untrue it could also be leagues from the truth.”