The Hot Seat

Here is the transformed chair for the HGRM auction.  It consists of 5 panels. Two are pictured below. I tried to identify glass that looked either like flames or smoke and cut it to amplify it's effect. I mounted 3 candlabra light fixtures on the cross bar underneath with flicker bulbs on the cross rail underneath, so it is pretty cool when plugged in.

HGRM Chair auction

Household Goods Recycling of Massachusetts hgrm.org is an independent not-for-profit organization based in Acton, MA that provides household goods, free of charge, to people in need.  They are having a fund-raiser auctioning off chairs modified by artists.  I like chairs.  I like to mess around.  It was a match.  I went to HGRM and looked over their selection of chairs that were not suitable to pass on to their clients.  I choose this oak chair for the chair rails and the attractiveness of the wood.

Turkmen rug in Glass

I managed to finish the glass panel in time to send home with Gozelsha.  I learned a little about glass paint.  I learned that it likes to bubble up.  I learned to thin it and apply it with a spoon instead of a brush (smoother).  I think that I learned it is tough enough to endure the temperature of my iron - time will tell.  I hope that I learn that it survived the trip to Turkmenistan.

I'm Published!

Okay, not like in academia.  But Stained Glass News chose to include my "Blue Crab at Home" project in their Reader's Gallery of Issue 93, it came out January 2011.