(clockwise from top) "Gold Coast", "Pompeii", raw safety glass in bag
Quick story – When I was a little girl, I found some broken windshield glass in the alley near our home. My mother, being the crafty sort at the time, decided to bring it home to experiment with. Her project, as I recall, involved gluing the pieces of glass around a flower pot for a sort of sparkly mosaic effect. We’ll never know what the end result might have been, since my toddler sister decided that tempered glass would make a delicious appetizer to the lunch my mother had left the room to make. Although a frantic trip to the doctor revealed no lasting damage, the great tempered glass experiment quickly made it’s way to the trash, never to be tried again.
I’m so happy that Ellen Blakeley, artist and owner of Ellen Blakeley Studio, had better results! Just look at the amazing tiles she has created from recycling tempered glass…
