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fabricated impact resistant glass laminating fabric
Currently on view at Mint Museum--UPTOWN
Installation made possible by Philip Morris Companies Inc. and Philip Morris USA.
Glass artist Tom Patti is nationally-renowned for his pioneering use of architectural and industrial glass. With Spectral Boundary, which explores the relationship between the textile heritage of North Carolina and the advancing industrial culture, he combines more than thirty laminated and fused layers of glass, plastic and woven fiber materials. An interesting fact about the wall: the same compression machinery that manufactured the skin on the Stealth bomber was used to create these glass panels, thus the wall is bulletproof and bombproof. Spectral Boundary has been reconfigured and relocated from the Mint Museum of Craft + Design’s North Tryon Street location.
Accession Number: 1998.138A-O
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