Jeremy has a body of work that uses imagery from city landscapes painted on glass. Sometimes that imagery is painted on glass in the form of something that from the city’s landscape, an 18-wheeler or in this case a water tower.

At his Portland studio, using a special paint made for this purpose, Jeremy painted various images in black on clear and colored glass panels. Then he fused the painted panel with another of the same size, sandwiching the paint between the glass panels. He brought several of these slabs here which we rolled up and attached to circular slabs to make open-topped cylinders. These cylinders will serve as the main part of a water tower form. The glass tops were made separately, and the bases will be made later, most likely of metal.

An extra challenge Jeremy threw at the Team this week was using two different types of glass. The glass he used to make the slabs is not compatible with our furnace glass. If the two were annealed (slow-cooled) together, they would break apart or crack. The Team had to not only get used to working with another type of glass, but also working with two different types at once. As you’ll see in the video, they also had to make sure they cut off any of our furnace glass before putting the piece away.

Video by Todd Pottinger, MOG AV Producer