Relying on numerical patterns of ten, this project extends its interest in observing material vulnerabilities unique to glass by locating narratives of human surrender in both literal and figurative terms throughout history, science, architecture, and circumstances unique to Rochester, New York.

Lists, drawings, notation, and objects are presented as an ambiguously interconnected cataloging of ways in which accuracy has given way to error.

“With this poetic investigation of vulnerability, Schnuckel has methodically visualized the effects of temperature and time on glass. In “Decadal”, a family of ten cups with shared design components is repeatedly exposed to the temperature of a kiln, which creates subtle alterations. The cups are documented as a unit after each firing and returned to the kiln for another cycle. The technique is repeated until each cup is structurally compromised “ - Simón Ballen Botero (2022)