Essay by Barbara Rose:
Nature Into Art: Judi Harvest’s Glass Still Life

"For The Gritti Palace, Harvest has created a glass centerpiece inspired by Caravaggio’s still life. Transforming nature into art, Harvest’s Centrotavola Veneziano is an elaborate glass basket filled with blown glass fruits and vegetables grown in the Venetian Lagoon; a real vessel that holds three-dimensional objects. The basket and its contents are not alive in the sense of conventional still life, but are creations of the artist’s imagination." ...more