Living Room Wall "Window" 4.0' x 8.0' (1.2 x 2.4 m) This first Windowless Stained Glass installation (1979) replaced cumbersome artificial lighting and diffuser with mirror. With only normal interior lighting in the room, Windowless stained glass comes to life in full illumination. Instead of mounting the mirror flush against the stained glass, I recessed the mirror several inches behind allowing the stained glass and its reflected image to interact as viewers move past. The magic of mirror with its illusion of depth and spatial flow produces a sparkling, expansive impression of "window" within an otherwise opaque wall.
The Windowless glass palette is typically composed of lighter, transparent colors since color saturation is effectively doubled when glass and reflections overlap. The use of contrasting opals and opaks further enhances the sense of spatial flow beyond the plane of the wall.