George's Window

This one will always be called George's window, for the reasons you'll see below. George Manupelli, founder of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, raconteur, avant garde artist and filmmaker/director, lived in a church converted into a home in Bethlehem. He and I became friends, bonding over our love of art - George gifted me many amusing and odd works over the years - and our love of Nicaragua. We even traveled there together in 2006, and following that trip, he commissioned me to design and construct this panel. It contains two of George's favorite recurring images - tears on a postage stamp and his childhood silhouette. The central image was sandblasted on flashed glass (glass with a thin layer of color on one side). I painted the lilies and poppies on the top and sides, as well as the silhouettes. I also sandblasted the tears, and the wording at the bottom; what doesn't show is George's request that under his birth date are the letters DNF - did not finish. George did finally finish on September 14, 2014, just before his 83rd birthday.