Heron Collaboration

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If you follow us and our work at all, you probably know we love collaborations and working with the community. We recently had the chance to work with another local artist, Grant Garmezy, and help him bring one of his glass creations to life.

{Click on any of the images below to enlarge.}

Grant's blown and sculpted glass heron with his life-size sketch of the legs he had in mind for the bird.

Kyle working on the feet....

... and the legs.

The completed and installed feet and legs. The weight-bearing leg on the rock is attached by a bolt that runs all the way through the stone base.

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