I crept quietly along the side of the house. I slowly rounded the corner. The target was only a quick sprint across the lawn away, with maybe a somersault thrown in for good measure. Or maybe five cartwheels and a back-flip.
Either, or.
The target was a door with 15 glass panes. I had spotted it through my bathroom window three weeks ago. It was leaning against the neighbor’s garage door. I decided that if the statute of limitations on use of said door expired, let’s say in two weeks, it was automatically mine.
Not to foreshadow, or anything, but it looks like this:
My intentions were good.
Well.
Mostly.
So midway through my third cartwheel, Susan, my neighbor, appeared. I had forgotten to use the darkness of night as cover for my clandestine operation. I tried to act as casual as possible and managed to say, “Hey. How are you? Can I have your door?”. There may or may not have been cartwheels and clandestine operations involved.
She explained that a client had given her the door (she paints murals), she figured it would only end up in her giant pile of stuff with potential purpose and was more than happy to give it to me.
When I first spotted the door, I thought it would be cool to turn it sideways and create a back-painted, 15 panel story board.
This was my first back-painted glass project:
I needed windows in my windowless office.
I thought, maybe, I could run a rod through the hinges of the door to create some sort of decorative hanger, but I realized in carrying it home that it is a giant pig. It could be done. It would just have to be cleated at the bottom for additional (hidden) support.
I’m going to do a few concept drawings this week. I haven’t had a chance to doodle today so there’s nothing to post here yet. This will be the start to a series of ‘work in progress’ posts. I’m also going to play around with some designs that would accomodate re-using it as a door.
Any suggestions?
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