Re:philosophical - glass garden
> one of my favorite new materials has been brought forward by my
>friends Stephen Jerrom and Andy Cao, who have a "glass garden" here
>in Los Angeles. They use tumbled recycled glass in a variety of
>ways, including as a sort of jewel-like gravel (no sharper than
>regular gravel). They've also made some beautiful walls with the
>material, pressing it into stucco and concrete. These sparkle around
>their collection of aloes and agaves.
Laura,
Your description of the glass garden reminded me of many stucco
houses built, I think, in the 1930s that had pieces of coloured glass
incorporated in the stucco. They always fascinated me as a child, as
did the ocean-smoothed pieces of coloured glass along the beach. It
sounds as though your friends made a design of the glass in their
garden walls. Can you buy this tumbled glass or did they use a rock
tumbler to make their own?
Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
