For years he was unable to find the time to put the concept into practice. The chaos of life - joining the Navy, raising my sister and me, and various other situations both happy and not so happy - conspired to keep him from doing anything. In 1989, he began his first experimentations with stained-glass windows. By the mid-1990's, he was doing serious work, using semi-precious stones like agate and tormeline, as well as found objects (e.g. beer bottles), guitar picks, and in general anything which was translucent.
Below are pictures of five of his windows. The windows are two feet by three feet (61 cm by 91 cm). The pictures had been taped up in the kitchen for some time prior to my scanning them, and I didn't want to remove the tape for fear of damaging the pictures, so the tape remains in the images below. Click on an image to see it full-size.
"The Old Peasant", a painting by Van Gogh
Van Gogh's self-portrait
"Lady in a Red Hat" (I forget the name of the artist) [Those white lines aren't part of the window. They're cat scratches on the photograph.]
"La Danse a Ville" by Renoir
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Vermeer
My dad doesn't check his e-mail very often - one day I'll drag him into the 20th century, now that we're in the 21st - but you could e-mail me at thames1214@yahoo.com.
