Suncatchers Past Times Jan Meng At Hungry Holler
In the winter, the thought out the window is calm spell plants residue as well as every bit much every bit nosotros savor the structural beauty, nosotros every bit good immature lady color. One agency to savor nature’s colors is to hang suncatchers as well as thus when the Sun is out colors are reflected into the room, creating rainbows on drapes as well as walls. Glass beads engagement dorsum to 3,000 B.C. as well as stained drinking glass itself was seen exclusively inwards churches until Tiffany popularized it inwards lampshades inwards 1895. Native Americans from the American Southwest made the master drinking glass sunlight catchers nosotros know.
Artist January Meng designs as well as creates complex drinking glass suncatchers at Hungry Holler Art Refuge inwards Eucha OK. On a unmarried suncatcher strand she creates items that are made of ten or 12 tiny pieces of drinking glass interspersed amongst unmarried drinking glass beads or a serial of drinking glass cubes as well as mirrors. “I desire my pieces to travel dazzling as well as fabulous,” Meng said. “With suncatchers inwards your windows the passage of the twenty-four lx minutes menstruum is made manifest every bit Sun moves through the room. I uncovering it all the time; I’m never un-aware of the beauty.”
Meng designed her suncatchers to hang exterior as well as concluding a lifetime no affair what the weather. She spent years going through miles of diverse types of specialty string, looking for the strongest. Now, the private drinking glass fine art pieces are stung together amongst stainless steel snaps.
The squiggly metallic hangers she uses are made yesteryear a adult woman who crafts them on a specialty car her gramps invented as well as each suncatcher slice has a metallic amount crafted to fellowship yesteryear around other adult woman artist. Meng starts amongst those metallic cores as well as the residue is artistry. Meng said, “It brings me peace to function amongst glass. The rainbows the drinking glass makes flit across the room amongst the sun, reflecting the low-cal the Universe gave us all to appreciate.”
Check out Jan’s colorful designs at www.hungryholler.com and www.etsy.com/shop/hungryholler