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I'm a horse lover, and I especially appreciate the grace and elegance of the Friesian horse in motion. I wanted to create him in glass. I chose course frit, Bullseye black. I built a stencil from layers of fiber paper and then filled the void with the loose frit. I chose not to full fuse, but rather to tack/soft fuse so that the texture of the glass would exhibit a vast number of reflection points, lending itself to bounce light off its surface in a multitude of directions. I decided the sculpture should be mounted on stone and I chose a stone common in my local, the Jerusalem stone, the stone that covers the façade of the buildings in the Holy City. I used a brass rod as a prop to hold “Grace in Motion” upright. During the fusing process, the space for the rod, to be inserted at assembly time, was held by a shorter rod rolled up in thinfire. The dimensions I gave above are those of the full sculpture, but the horse is 7.9” tall, 9.9” wide and 0.5” deep.
