DIE GLÄSERNE WELT / THE GLASS WORLD
10.2022
I got the honor to be part of the project ROLE MODELS by FELIN in Graz. The assignment was to interpret an anonymous transcripted interview from a participant from the program in an Artwork. As I really like to create still life, I thought to do one for this project too. The interviewee talked about the "glass ceiling". A phrase that I never heard before.
"A glass ceiling is a metaphor usually applied to women, used to represent an invisible barrier that prevents a given demographic from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy. No matter how invisible the glass ceiling is expressed, it is actually a difficult obstacle to overcome. The metaphor was first used by feminists in reference to barriers in the careers of high-achieving women. - Marilyn Loden
After a lot of reading and research, I came to the conclusion that my role model didn't have to overcome just one difficult obstacle. She had to overcome many difficult obstacles all of her life so there it came to my mind that I should build a glass world in order to represent all her obstacles in one photograph.
© Brisilda Bufi
