Ken Goldman (b. 1960)
Fragile, Handle with Care, 2016
Sandblasted glass
Museum Collection
Must Know
The Ketubah or Jewish Wedding document was created as a de facto pre-nuptial wedding contract affording the bride some degree of protection if a marriage went bad. In this small glass sculpture the artist engraves the entire Ketubba on a fragile wine glass- connecting between the tradition of breaking a glass under the wedding canopy and the fragility of marriages
