The idea for making glass sculptures came to Raquel in a dream. She envisioned her paintings moving from the walls and materializing in spatial form. Using commercially produced grey and bronze sheets of glass, she created this series in the 1970s and 1980s. These works are poetic, elusive architectures. They hold light as well as lightness. They propose illusions and are capable of shifting perceptions and assumptions. They have a slippery relationship to time and site and range from large-scale installations to tabletop arrangements. These works are physical but they contain Raquel’s vast imaginary worlds and underworlds within. They are concrete visualizations of a dream; they exist in the space between everything and nothing and back again.
—Heather Rowe
