Lisa Swerling's Glass Cathedrals https://glasscathedrals.com Lisa Swerling’s Glass Cathedrals are a series of artboxes containing brilliant tiny worlds, each making their own small statement on this complicated world we live in Sun, 23 Feb 2020 04:03:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 No dogs allowed https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/no-dogs-allowed/ Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:28:15 +0000 http://glasscathedrals.com/?p=4626 A wonderful customization for Molly Pritchett and her husband, for their NY apartment where their fab poodles are strictly NOT ALLOWED!

]]> Darling https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/darling/ https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/darling/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:37:42 +0000 http://glasscathedrals.com/?p=4550 Read more »]]> I was asked by Darling, a fabulous new (real life) magazine sold in Anthropologie, to write a feature about my experience of turning a hobby into a career.

I even made some Glass Cathedrals especially for them – recreating their Spring cover (see below), and made “On Balance“- inspired by the freedom and fear of freelancing.

You can have a glimpse of the article here.

]]> https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/darling/feed/ 1 Temptation https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/god-and/ Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:14:14 +0000 http://glasscathedrals.com/?p=4532 The little things in my studio often intersect to sweet effect. Here, god is tempted by a glass of red.

]]> Trouve, More Magic https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/more-magic/ Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:58:32 +0000 http://glasscathedrals.com/?p=4013 Lela gave me a stash of glass baubles to play with, for sale in the shop. I filled them with…guess…

]]> Fairfax on a Saturday night https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/trouve-by-day/ Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:43:40 +0000 http://glasscathedrals.com/?p=3949 Green-satin-ballgown-meets-pink-rhinestone-prom-queen-meets-face-painted-goldfish. Feels like home to me.

]]> Trouvé at night https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/trouve-at-night/ Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:26:33 +0000 http://glasscathedrals.com/?p=3867 Read more »]]> On Friday Lela and I set up the exhibition. Then it began to rain and rain. First rain for 6 months. Later that night I could not stop thinking how beautiful the shop window looked, as pretty as a picture, so I drove there with Bea at midnight, set up a tripod in the empty road and took photos in the rain.

]]> All things Bright and Beautiful https://glasscathedrals.com/blog/all-things-bright-and-beautiful/ Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:28:26 +0000 http://glasscathedrals.com/?p=3834 Read more »]]> My Art show is opening at Trouvé in Fairfax this Saturday night. Glass Cathedrals are showing with the new work of spellbinding artist Lela Shields. I made a special mirror Glass Cathedral for the gallery window, a portrait of Lela and myself. I am the one wearing the green satin ballgown!

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