The mosaic is set within a 7″x 7″ shadow box which can be either hung on a wall or set atop furniture (shown here) or on a shelf.
Stained glass with quartz and 1 billion year old Savoy Gneiss collected in the Berkshires
White stone is translucent quartz, darker opaque stone is Gneiss. Note how the featured light color affects the color of the stained glass compared with the previous image.
Iradescent stained glass cluster with gem at galaxy center, Labradorite, Garnet and Savoy Gneiss. Mirrored glass stars. Two lights with black, square 7″ x 7″ shadow box frame. Natural light. Private collection in the Berkshires.
Luminated image. Two translucent stones in the Red Dwarf are Labradorite. Stones around galaxy center include red-orange Carnelian gemstone,
Illuminated image including black iradescent stained glass in two corners, Labradorite, crushed Carnelian and Garnet gemstones, One light in 7″ x 7″ black frame. Private collection in Washington, D.C.
Not a space telescope image but a NASA visualization of our galaxy at the time of it’s creation 11 billion years ago. Iradescent black stained glass, Labradorite, Berkshire Quartz, Carnelian, Citrine, Garnet, Goshen and Ashfield Schist bits, Dry Hill and Savoy Gneiss. Illuminated with one light in 7″ x 7″ frame.
Iradescent stained glass with gemstone at center of galaxy. Garnets and mirrored glass stars. Rough ruby birthstone set in top of 7″ x 7″ black frame with glass tiles set in corners. Private collection in Los Angeles.
This work created to appear three dimensional. Crushed blue stained glass and glass tiles to depict hydrogen gas. Crushed Citrine, Garnet and Carnelian and Savoy Gneiss used for surrounding stellar dust clouds. Mirrored glass stars in black space outside.
Illuminated with one light. Crushed Carnelian, Citrine, Garnet and Savoy Gneiss stone. Crushed blue and black iradescent stained glass.
Red stone represent clusters of dying “Red Dwarf” stars. Blue represents regions of new stars rich in hydrogen. The iradescent stained glass bits scattered in the darkness twinkle as distant stars.
Black and blue iradescent stained glass, uncut Ruby (main star), Labradorite, Carnelian, Savoy Gneiss and other stone dust, illuminated with one light. Private collection in Pittsburgh, PA.
A dimly lit bookshelf makes an ideal place to display and illuminate at near eye level any mosaic space art piece.
Iradescent stained glass, Lapis Lazuli, Calcite, Goshen Schist, Savoy and Dry Hill Gneiss, Carnelian, Red Jasper, Moretown Quartz, Sugarloaf sedimentary stone, Brown Goldstone, mirrored glass (stars), 5X7 frame, two lights
Light is refracted in downward angled view. Blueish areas of new star formation are comprised of calcite. Red elements of older star clusters are Carnelian and Jasper. Stained glass is used in upper left and lower right corners.
The telescope image required nearly 700 digital exposures. The mosaic work uses crushed blue glass tiles, Obsidian, Rhodonite, Citrine, Carnelian, Moretown Quartz, and Sugarloaf sedimentary stone. Mounted in a 5X7 frame on glass, with mosaic pieces on the inside surface.
A section of the image (at center-left of previous image) with white-hot gas is illuminated through finely crushed quartz. Blue light in upper left illustrates oxygen around new star formation. Pinkish-orange gas clouds of the Trifid Nebula using crushed Rhodonite (sourced from Australia) are illuminated at lower right. Note the depth of field captured within the white gas mass.
This barred spiral galaxy is located in the constellation Virgo around 50 million light-years from Earth. The blueish portions of the arms indicate younger and hotter stars. The uses crushed blue glass tiles, Obsidian, Lapis Luzuli, Carnelian, Garnet, Calcite, Moretown Quartz and Sugarloaf sedimentary stone; one light.
The close-up illustrates the single source illumination in white light at the center of the galaxy.
This outdoor image is taken in low, early morning light. Note how the black Obsidian catches the light to sparkle as distant stars.
This oblique angle image captures the entire work. (Straight-on photos are not successful given limitations of the camera light sensor.) At the center of the nebula is bluish hydrogen gas here represented by use of Lapis Luzuli and Calcite, The gas is surrounded by the ring of cosmic dust clouds composed of Carnelian and Garnet.
This image captures the left side of the work. The bluish hydrogen gas nebula center and surrounding dust cloud is shown.
This image captures the right side of the work. Some light from the center of the nebula image is reflected in stones of dust cloud ring
Webb Space Telescope image rendered with iradescent stained glass, Citrine, Carnelian, Hessonite (Garnet), Moretown Quartz and mirrored glass,
Image with illumination – blue light in upper right and yellow in lower left. Picture taken with interior lighting (reflected in stained glass mosaic) on overcast day.
Commissioned to follow original South Nebula piece (see three images above). Image with illumination – yellow light at center star.
Image with (weak) white light illumination. Note how the view angle changes the image and the illumination used changes the color profile of some stones.
New piece using (for colored gases) Garnet, Ruby, Lapis Luzuli, Carnelian, Rhodochronsite, Mica Schist (local), crushed blue glass tile, with Obsidian (for black space) and mirrored glass for stars. For a different look, two corners of the frame glass were left without mosaic pieces.
Oblique view with low-intensity yellow lighting. Multi-shade Carnelian, red-purple Garnet and crushed blue glass tile predominate. Red Ruby is visible at lower center
Spiral galaxy 11 million years from Earth. The core and some tendrils are comprised of young, hot stars blue from hydrogen, intertwined with dust trails. Dying red stars are scattered throughout the galaxy.
Citrine, Carnelian, Lapis Luzuli, finely crushed Garnet and Ruby, Calcite, Obsidian, Labradorite, crushed blue glass tile and mirrored glass. The lightly shaded spiraling dust tendrils are created with multi-stone sand prepared in a mortar and pestle, adhered to the inside of the glass.
Stone is adhered to both sides of the shadow box glass. Use of lightly colored crushed stone to represent cosmic dust on portions of the glass backside creates a mirror. From certain angles this allows the observer to see their image – a reminder they are part of the cosmos.
Stone which is adhered to both sides of the shadow box glass provides rich texture and three-dimensionality to the image
The small portion of the image at left-center with a blue-green color is only created when the stones in this part of the piece are illuminated with certain colors of light, including both violet and yellow-orange.
The work reflects an image taken in 2004 by the Hubble centered on a nova pulsating light at the outer edge of the Milky Way. Emanating from red supergiant star, hydrogen gas is eclipsed by cosmic dust cloud. The piece uses Carnelian, Citrine, Obsidian, Lapis Luzuli and crushed red glass tile.
The work uses mosaic material applied to both sides of the shadow box glass, creating depth of field and a contrast in texture.
This work is based on a composite picture made from images captured by the new MOTHRA telescope in Chile, the Hubble space telescope and the Kit Peak observatory in Arizona. For the first time, faint stellar debris dissolving into space is seen surrounding a dying star.
The center of the nebula has bluish gases encircled by yellowish and red-orange (hydrogen) bands. The mottled white is the surrounding stellar debris. Materials applied to both sides of the frame glass include quartz, obsidian, citrine, rhonochrosite, ruby, and crushed red and blue glass. Set in a 6X6 black frame with one light.