Thomas Glassford Born in 1963 in Laredo/Texas, USA. Lives in Mexico. 1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas, Austin Empty Island, 1997 The work was meant to have been placed in the Bay of Havana as part of a special event, but permission was denied by Cuban officials. The hint at the »Balseros«, the Cubans who fled in the direction of Florida in 1995 on the most inventive of contraptions, was probably too obvious for their tastes. |
A further work: Greenbelt, 1997. Mixed media |
© photos: Gerhard Haupt |