Mt. Rainier is made of 242 individual pieces.The glass itself measure 20 inches square and 25 inches square with its frame. It contains 16 different colors of glass including waterglass, artique, wispy, cathedral, quarter reed, seedy, raindrop, iridized, and opalescent and mystic. The later two types of glass are the foundational colors in its companion pieces: Spider Mum and Taurus. Another “special feature” of this window is that the constellation Gemini is embedded in the lead lines of the background blue glass. It is used in its proper orientation to the left of the mountain and flipped to mirror itself on the right hand side.
The look and feel of this piece is based on vintage National Park postcards interpreted with a very a modern graphic use of color and form.
Family of windows
thanks While I have never been to Mt. Rainier - I have traveled to many open places.
Vistas like Mt. Rainier are too vast to photograph. They are a feeling that the body remembers. The composition of this glass is very intentional. There needed to be weight at the bottom - down on the ground- so that as you rise through the space you can untether.
Take off your shoes, dig your fingers into the cool, damp moss of the foothills. Let the icy water wash over your toes. Your eye is traveling up to the tree line. The trees move in and out of dappled sun and shade. Breathe in as your face turns upwards - eyes moving through the pines, your shoulders sink down to their neutral place.
Eyes continue their trajectory into the white. All the whites with their textures and temperatures. Ice and snow, glittering sunshine on the edges. Eyes keep moving up- breathing is easier - until they meet the blue - and that is a revelation. Your body sinks back onto the soft moss- hair tangling with the grasses - your body remembers this place. Sink down. You can’t confine this with a photo.
You can only capture this as you breathe.
