Colors of Obsession

  Colors of Obsession is the life long story of one man's quest for working knowledge of all things glass.

  With a forward by Robert Liu of Ornment Magazine, the reader is taken on a lifetime quest from a childhood introduction to the mystery of a rainbow producing antique glass paperweignt to digging bottles from an old west town dump through a long decade of making stained glass and on to a career working hot glass on the pipe. The author chronicles his relentless passion for working with glass across six decades of making stained glass, blown glass paperweights and vessels to a total devotion to the complex chevron bead, originally developed in Murano, Italy 500 years ago, to bringing the chevron bead into the twentieth and twenty first centuries with new designs and techniques. The pages are lavishly illustrated with over 700 color photographs from across a lifetime journey with glass, from blasting an anvil 50 feet into the air to a stained glass portrait of 1929 fire engine to blowing glass for Pope John Paul II to decades of adventures at mountain man Rendezvous with reproductions of antique bottles and exotic glass beads all made by the author, to traveling to Ghana in west Africa with a glass bead technology exchange with local Krobo bead makers. Various advanced techniques are illustrated with bead examples along with a description of the process for making the chevron bead and a brief history of the chevron bead.