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Walking through these two galleries that house Skibska’s work is like taking a stroll along a beach at the edge of a forest – a beach that is littered with driftwood, gnarled tree trunks and rocks. There are no beginnings and no ends. There is humor, there is beauty, there is mystery; there is the essence of nature without slavishly copying the look of trees and mountains and bodies of water.
“Her use of the material is unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” [William Traver] says. “Being under communism she had no access to materials. It was out of necessity (that she created her technique). . . . It was out of that sort of need that her art occurred.”
Embroidering the ‘incorporeal’ mass of the glass with the same ability as a sculptor Anna Skibska manages to create imperceptible compositions of glass, “geometric spiders’ webs” on which light plays, crystallising like frost on a winter’s morning, revealing the Euclidean nature of the frozen water crystals.