{"product_id":"magenta-and-yellow-windowed-gem-acrylic-sculpture-50cm","title":"Magenta \u0026 Yellow Windowed Gem Acrylic Sculpture - 50cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn upright egg-shaped acrylic sculpture, wider at the shoulder than at its foot, cut into planes large enough that each holds one colour. Magenta and yellow fill the upper half. What happens below the middle is the point of it: the colour stops, and the lower planes are left almost colourless, a broad pale cyan plane at the centre with paler blue ones either side, windows through which the interior faces and the far side of the block can be seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eColour Above, Windows Below\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaving the lower planes nearly clear is a decision about where the colour STOPS, and they are the hardest faces on the piece to bring off. A filmed plane forgives a great deal because the film carries the eye; a clear one shows every mark left by the working, and it also shows everything behind it, so the interior of the block has to be worth looking into. That means the faces behind the window are finished to the standard of an outside face even though nobody will touch them. The window is placed low, beneath the colour rather than among it, for a reason worth stating: set among the coloured planes a clear one reads as a hole in the composition, and set beneath them the clear planes read as a way in. The colour above them is left saturated so the contrast does the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 50cm this is console, sideboard and cabinet-top work and it should be set at or a little below eye level, since the window only opens up when it is looked into rather than down on. It has to sit at chest height with nothing patterned behind it. Behind it, plain is essential: the window reads whatever is on the other side, so a patterned wall or a shelf of books appears inside the piece. The window needs its light from behind and slightly around, which lifts the interior faces out of the shadow the magenta throws over them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Window, the Order and What Arrives\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuild times separate standard from bespoke: 3–4 weeks against 5–6. The window paces this build, because the faces behind it are finished to an outside standard and there are more of them than the outside has. The facet layout and where the clear planes fall are drawn per commission, so two windows, a window set high, or the whole piece made at hall scale can all be ordered. Three films are offered here - this magenta and yellow, a blue-to-violet, a green-to-cyan - and the window can be left frosted rather than clear for a softer reading. It is set down with no assembly, handled by its coloured planes so that the clear ones stay unmarked. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA block whose colour stops at its middle, leaving the lower planes as windows onto its interior, is entered under our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/geometric-sculptures\"\u003egeometric sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/acrylic-sculptures\"\u003eacrylic sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e and our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e42cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e40cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDichroic Acrylic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54024446968155,"sku":"C032","price":2582.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/C032.jpg?v=1792007460","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/magenta-and-yellow-windowed-gem-acrylic-sculpture-50cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}