Cumberland Falls

Photograph with sketch lines 

I studied many views of Cumberland Falls, but this is the one I worked from more closely than others. It was taken several years ago from the Eagle Falls area.

Because the scene would be viewed from both sides of the glass, it was important to have it be recognizable from both views. Looking from downstream near the center of the river is the most symmetrical composition.

I cut the pieces for the cliffs first, because I only had a few pieces of that glass. Then I cut and fit the Falls piece between them.

Photographed with an opaque card behind the glass, this shows the texture in the white glass used for the water.

Finished Falls section

Women at Work

Jessica Kelvas polished panels.

Thanks, Jessica!

Jes, Polishing

Connie Profitt spent a weekend helping. 
Thanks, Connie!

Connie, Fine tuning 

Susan Weaver puttied a panel and took this photograph. 

Thanks, Susan!

Geraldine, Cleaning

Kay

             A short time after the windows were finished, Kay Vinson, my faithful friend and companion who generously worked with me for many days during the summer months—and for years on other things—passed away.


The colors and shapes of the glass have echoes of her, and of our final days together.  They were good days.


Thank you, Kay.  I miss you.

Kay
Cleaning one of the sky panels

Beannacht (blessing)

On the day when

The weight deadens

On your shoulders

And you stumble,

May the clay dance

To balance you.

And when your eyes

Freeze behind

The grey window

And the ghost of loss

Gets in to you,

May a flock of colours,

Indigo, red, green,

And azure blue

Come to awaken in you

A meadow of delight….

            (John O’Donohue)

Finished

Installed in the Whitley County Jucicial Center
October 2011