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The sculpture was originally cast as a silvery bronze bottle, but was then intentionally stripped open and sculpted, a process that involved breaking the bottle into winding sections and combining absolute and relative motion to give it a rotary appearance. The finished sculpture is 15 ½ inches tall and sits on a quadrilateral base of length 23 ¾ inches and width 15 ½ inches (39.4 x 60.3 x 39.4 cm). The bottle is shown sitting on a much larger base, on what is believed to be the machinery used in the production of glass bottles. The smaller, hollowed out cylindrical mass next to the bottle takes the appearance of an empty container, one that would appear on the conveyor belt of such a machine. The bottle itself, however, is shown as a three quarter cross section, showing the object previous to completion, as it is still being molded.
glass bottle bronze sculpture cross section