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This project started back in October 2015 when a friend of mine Carol Cunningham (an internationally renowned bronze sculptor) and her husband Don approached me about a sculpture idea they had. An 8-foot-tall pair of glasses with mirror polished lenses, What the! Was my first thought. Don brought a prototype of the concept to my studio a few days’ latter and we discussed the options for doing a piece from stainless steel. There original idea was to have the piece done in bronze with polished stainless steel lenses for people to interact with and take pictures and selfies in but the cost to cast the piece in bronze was going to be extremely expensive. Fortunately for me they thought of me doing a piece that was all stainless steel with polished lenses. I spent a couple weeks contemplating a design concept fabrication details and installation scenarios’ before finally coming up with this concept.

Don and Carol picked up the prototype and presented it to the town Civic and Cultural Association shortly after and it was approved. It finally made it through the Town Council in March 2016 and I started production of the piece the middle of March.

Here is an article from the town when it was approved.

I will be posting some of the fabrication process pictures for the next couple weeks till the piece is set in it's permanent home. Then I will post the finished pictures of it in all it's glory.