Multiple layered fused glass for the Sahara Desert scene bordered with mosaic design of murrini's complemented by Michael Angelo Menconi of The Contemporary Studio of Glass Art and pieces of sheet glass. Set in a cast iron frame with additional custom design hooks for the blown glass capsule necessary for the scroll that holds the non-fiction narrative. Iron initials are also customized and welded in the frame. "My Sahara" is a chapter and also a part of the puzzle of the "Gypsy Series" masterpiece I am currently working on. "My Sahara" is inspired by a heroin I admire and is a story about love, promise, beauty and the horrible end of a vibrant spirit that I had once known. It is a narrative spoken through visual metaphors and symbolism of experiences of disillusionment of betrayal. This glass artwork is dedicated in memory of this extraordinary spirited heroin.

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Behold – for you are looking at the end of a story that also holds a painful, yet beautiful secret. A story that was once lived, once kept in shame, and now revealed to the public in visual form. This is a story of “ The Birth of the Peek-a-boo Teardrop.” A teardrop that reflects the distortion of the vision of a girl I once knew very well and now want to forget.
I call this girl Gypsy, a name not by choice but because of cursed faith. A faith she resisted at first but later learned to embrace. She is not like the common gypsy that we all think – not a swindler, a cheat, nor a fraud. But yes, a Gypsy who is unheard, misplaced, misunderstood, without any form of belonging and inflamed with rejection. She speaks in a language of metaphor and drapes herself in vibrant colors and fancies, to distract us from the truth that is very much apparent. She is a great chameleon, a pretender in disguise to protect a dark side that is twisted, but yet frail. And thus, “The Gypsy Series” begins as I have be

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