Bone Women Mini Collage painting Enameled stars with a black

Enameled stars with a black swirl design

Clear bevels

I was invited to design centerpieces for an event at the National Press Club in Washington DC

Photos don't do these justice - they are some of my favorites

I selected and hand cut different colored pieces of art glass

Bone Women Mini Collage painting Enameled stars with a blackThroughout Iceland, cairns mark the way, over mountain passes, across the moonscape of the interior, through the frequent lava wastes. Travelers have used the paths for centuries. When a snowstorm overtook a wayfarer, a row of cairns could save a life. Cairns were sometimes called bone women, or beggar women.' Charles Fergus, Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World 4" square mixed media collage on wood.