"Mistari Maridadi", which means "beautiful stripes" in Swahili, is a piece that is made of over 9,715 pieces of handcut stained glass....each piece is usually trimmed down at least 5-10 cuts to allow each piece to fit beautifully, as I lay in my pieces very tight, so thats about 48,575- 91,750 individual cuts to get to the finished piece ! This work took over 337 hours in the studio to complete.
I have always loved nests and what they represent to me as almost a “second womb”.
I created this piece for a couple getting married and told their story of love within.
Sculpted in polystyrene, adorned with stained glass, mirrored glass, Italian smalti, gold smalti, feathers, hand cut organza and silk flowers.
For recording artist Neal McCoy and his foundation “East Texas Angel Network”.
This is a series of skulls I was commissioned to do for a business with their logo embedded in hand-cut glass.
