arc of a dance This started with an abstract composition (the central square)which morphed into a visionary image of romantic love and marriage (21" diameter).AFSD* Original stained glass art by Joseph Tracy of Brookside Glassworks
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FAMILIA SAGRADA
A small gift window for my wife, Priscilla, which began as an abstract composition based on a dream of a blue fence and turned to thoughts on the mystery of birth and sacredness of family. Original stained glass art by Joseph Tracy of Brookside Glassworks
GIOTTO, THE HOUSELESS, LEONARDO'S MIRROR, EDGAR'S STRAIGHT LINES IN A CURVED WORLD, AND THE PROBLEM OF BACKBONES
inspired by reading King Lear with a back injury. 32" x23.25" AFSD*Original stained glass art by Joseph Tracy of Brookside Glassworks
SLEEPING KING
Contemporary interpretation of medieval stained glass inspired by the sculpture of Gislebertus and the legends of King David's harp
Detail of Giotto-Lear Window showing glass painting, silver stain,which is the yellow , cast glass( the green wing on lower left), sandblasted flash glass (the pine needles), and glued glass( the bottom center wing). The Shakespeare line says
"Poor naked wretches whereso'er you are
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads
and unfed sides
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness
defend you from seasons such as these?""