back to main Etching Commission: These pieces were etched by a
glass artist, sandblasted actually, from designs I provided. These are
the
test pieces that were reproduced five each and they were given to me on
the condition that I don't sell them. I was working through the design firm, Hirsch-Bedner. You can see in the pics that I
put them in my windows in one room. The ones used in the final piece were
placed in a very elegant mahogeny (Honduran rain forest i'm afraid)
frame setting one end of a hotel bar off from a hallway. The bar was
raised to, further setting it off and on either side of the actual bar
were oil pastel drawings I did of musicians, ranging from Dylan to Beethoven... see here(in
the right column). I shot these images under different lighting,
day and night, to give a sense of how they vary in different light.
When the hotel changed hands the installation was scrapped and the
glass ended up in the collection of Suzy and Bill Leveille.
ran across these preliminary thumbnails from which the etching evolved.
