WIND


Raise your face and feel the wind in your hair. Experience the wonder of the invisible world, the world of the wind. A power you cannot see until its gentle passage trembles a leaf or its mighty force bows strong trees low.

Who Has See the Wind
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing thro'.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti

This piece emerged in several stages, over time. The leaf came first floating on the amber circle. The surrounding clear baroque glass, with its free form ripples, came next symbolizing the wind. It sat unfinished for many months the design waiting, fermenting. As I was rediscovering the poetry of Christina Rossetti, for another piece I was working on, I came upon her poem, “Who Has See the Wind”. Suddenly the completed design came to me and I went straight out to the studio to choose the complimenting glass and to paint and fire the panel with the poem.