“ Every human being is born with the desire to express themselves in some manner. My work simply speaks of events in my life time. The desire to express runs deeper than merely a documentation of an event. It is about the human condition.”

— Michael Aschenbrenner

Aschenbrenner, a studio glass artist and Viet Nam War veteran who sustained a leg wound while on a mission during the Tet Offensive, transforms his war experience into a series of hauntingly twisted glass bones which were blown in his studio. Each pale mangled bone is held together by cloth bandages, wire and twigs, creating a nightmarish memory of the horrors or war. – Description Curtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art