Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Violin Window

Our house has an arched window in the front room that faces directly west. Many of our neighbors have identical windows hidden with blinds, curtains or shutters, but when we moved here ours wasn’t covered. A few weeks each year – spring and fall – the setting sun would interfere with music lessons and with dinner in the adjacent dining room. I drew this design on a piece of butcher paper which I took to a stained glass studio near the ballpark in Salt Lake. A few weeks (and a few hundred dollars) later, they installed the finished product. I loved the way the colored light danced across the floor and the wall each afternoon. But one of our tenants didn’t love it. We found the window hidden in our garage with a large crack through its middle. It was sad, but this maple tree (bottom center) has since doubled in size, rendering the window invisible and unnecessary. 

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