long day ahead

I’ve been run out of the kitchen.  Obviously, my attempts to help instruct were not appreciated.  It’s not like I really mind.  I still have plenty to do to get ready for tomorrow.

Tomorrow we are going to do the first stage of the work for the altar window in the new chapel at John Wesley United Methodist Church.  Anyone catch the irony here...the non-religious person doing all this religious work?  What we are going to do tomorrow is to etch the 1 1/2" wide outline of the cross onto the existing glass.  This is a chemical process using a cream but messy in it’s own right.  You might recall I used it on the last job .

We don’t ordinarily work on site.  But both the processes we are using can be done on site.  After we drive for an hour and a half to get there.  I hope it doesn’t take more than 5 hours.  I also hope it only takes 3.  Because then we have an hour and a half drive back home.  We could have shortened the drive to 45 minutes but then we would have had to spend the night in town.  Which means we would have had to close up the house and schlep the cat back as well.  Seemed easier to go for the longer drive.

The other process is to glue the prepared jewels onto the existing glass as well.  We are going to try to get that accomplished in two days during the week between Christmas and New Year.  To that end I have also been selecting the colors and cutting the dicroic glass that is to be glued to the back of the various sized jewels.  I decided to arrange the colors warm to cool, yellows to blues.  I eliminated green so my colors are yellow, orange, red. pink, purple, blue.  Granted, I haven’t cut the purples and blues yet but it already seems a little weighted to the yellows.  Not sure what I think of that.  I guess it depends on if I can reconcile it with some sort of mythology or I decide it’s trite.

Of course, that only matters in transmitted light.  In reflected light, like at night, they will reverse from pale blue to gold.  Or they should and less than half of the total jewels have color anyway.

Oh well, long day tomorrow any way you look at it.