This is a walk-in kitchen pantry door. Like most of the commissions I do, a lot of the clients' input goes into the final artwork. In that sense, this is a good example of personalized stained glass. In this case, my clients specified exactly which fruits, vegetables, and seafoods were to be included in this piece of kitchen art. They even showed me a bottle of their favorite wine, which I included in the lower left portion of the artwork. This piece looks vastly different when the light in the pantry is turned on, although the glasses were chosen primarily for the way they would look with no light coming through them. I try to let my clients make as many of the artistic decisions as possible... my job is to advise and ensure that they make no real mistakes. When all is done, I go back to my studio while they go on living with the artwork, so who am I to say what type of lettuce to immortalize?

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