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I take salvaged and old broken windows and turn them into artwork.
A Dream Window achievement!!!
Yes, I’m still working on Dream Windows, my specialized art project in which I take salvaged window frames and repurpose them into dedicated artworks that chronicle my life experiences. Last year, I finished my fifth Dream Window, entitled The Thirst Quencher. If you want to see how that one was constructed, I chronicled everything in…
Read MoreDream Window #5: The Thirst Quencher
Ah, that Coca-Cola “ghost sign” brickad in Schenectady. I’ve driven past it many times. I’ve photographed it many times. I’ve even won an award in 2010 by capturing an image of it with my splitfilm photography technique. Now I’m thinking about how it would look in a Dream Window. We have so many of these…
Read MoreDream Window #4: Life Ain’t No Crystal Stair
Sunday, October 28. The pre-Superstorm Sandy sky was surprisingly calm, and I had plenty of shootable 120 camera rollfilm in my freezer. Yep, the freezer is where all photographers should keep their film, so that it can be used without worrying about it going too far past its expiration date. Don’t laugh at me, you…
Read MoreMy first “Dream Window” found a new home.
There it went. With the etch of a pen upon a silent auction bid sheet, my first-ever Dream Window, “The Dream Window of Kenwood Avenue,” would receive a new owner and a new location. Background. Yesterday, I attended the “Art for AIDS’ Sake” art auction at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Albany. The Damien…
Read MoreHow Historic Albany Foundation made my day
Last Saturday, I had a ton of errands to run and appointments to meet. I also had lunch plans with one of my blog readers, Potrzebie – nice guy, would definitely do lunch with him again – and I wanted to take care of a window switcheroo with Historic Albany Foundation’s Parts Warehouse. Originally I…
Read MoreDream Window #3: Three Miles From Route 9N
I’ve crafted my previous “Dream Window” creations with a mixture of stained glass and photography. This time around, I’m adding some additional materials to the mix. And it all starts with another Queen Anne-style transom window – this time, a window snagged from Historic Albany Foundation’s parts warehouse.
Read MoreDream Window #2: The North Pearl Street Limited
My first stained-glass-and-photography collage, The Dream Window of Kenwood Avenue, turned out better than I had imagined. And with that in mind, I wanted to craft another “Dream Window,” and in putting this project together, I called upon all my photography and crafting skills – as well as a little ingenuity, luck and savvy. And…
Read MoreUpdate on the Stained Glass Dream Window of Kenwood Avenue Project
Update. In an effort to create a new art project, last December I purchased a glass-paneled window from Silver Fox Salvage in Albany’s warehouse district. I replaced most of the border panels in the window with swirled “end of day” slag glass, which were carefully trimmed to fit along the window’s perimeter. I then took…
Read MoreThe Stained Glass Window of Kenwood Avenue
Inspiration comes from various sources in my life. And on December 3, 2011, it came from a salvage company. Background. From about 1968 to 1971, I lived with my maternal grandparents in a small house on Kenwood Avenue in Slingerlands. One of the things I always remembered about that house on Kenwood Avenue was that…
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Chuck The Writer 