Stained glass?

Back in the early 1990’s, when I began making sculpture from typewriters, I worked at a stained glass restoration studio.

About 1500 churches close in the United States every year. The phenomenon has been called “The Great Dechurching.” The notion that parishes are selling their sacred images to the highest bidder, or just throwing them away altogether, is fascinating to me.

I’ve recently begun to collect and take apart mostly figure windows from churches, making my own compositions from the existing painting and shading by cutting the original glass pieces, which I then make into wall-hanging lightboxes.

I completely disassemble the original window, then use new lead to remake the window into images pulled from my own musings about humanity, technology, and faith.