The second World Bank installation was a glass garden designed to attract and guide visitors down the hall to an office often considered hidden and hard to find.

My first commission was an installation of 16 pieces of woven glass for an office building in Chevy Chase, Maryland. These were designed to be wrapped around a convex wall and cut from a large piece of glass so the iridescent color gradually changed as you walked.

My first installations in the World Bank Headquarters building was the 42” circle of multiple layers of iridescent glass seen below. Actually composed of 4 quarter circles mounted together, it was meant to appear as a large black circle until the viewer approached and the texture and colors came alive. 

The last 3 glass walls created for the World Bank were designed for concave alcoves used for serving areas near large meeting rooms.

All three were made with transparent iridescent glass and specifically designed to create patterns of color on the wall in addition to the color of the glass.

This alcove used three 3-piece vertical clusters of my woven glass.

Pictured here are some of the pieces laid out ready to be hung. Because these pieces wrapped around the wall, this is the only way to show the changing rainbow colors. 

this alcove featured 7 pieces of my Staggered Path series

The third alcove featured a unique way to hang my woven glass to really show the colors of the glass and the pattern transmitted through the glass onto the wall

The "woven glass" commission pieces are not actually woven. First of all, it would be much more difficult to actually weave these glass pieces and thus much more expensive to create. Secondly a single actual woven glass piece often takes three kiln firings. And it is difficult to achieve perfect right angles which could really matter on this third alcove.