Having decided that I'm not that fond of curtains, but there are some windows that I don't want people to see in, and there's really nothing to see out of them anyway, I've started experimenting. After a hint from my friend Mark Walsh, recently back from Japan, about Japanese paper, I remembered that I still have a variety of said papers from my printmaking days. So I decided to try gluing them to the glass and Doing Things. I started with the newly revealed side door, which has suffered water damage and will have to be replaced anyway, so if things don't go right it doesn't really matter. This was a good choice, since my first experiment didn't turn out real well--I tried painting the paper with acyrlic metallic paint. I then tried simply putting a sheet of paper on the glass, which looked nice, if somewhat boring, although that's what I went with on the window in the dining room. But on the expendable door I decided to try a collage.

This turned out to be an interesting project. I don't think I've done in a collage in years, the last one was probably a lithograph I did as a demonstration for a print class 12 or 13 years ago. Making this collage I discovered that not only do I have the problem of a lack of recent experience, but doing it on glass revealed an unexpected challenge--it looks quite different depending on the lighting. So the design must work in three different "states" and, complicating the process of constructing it, the wet paper looks quite different than any of those states.