Desert Sunset

About this artwork

Desert Sunset reflects the dramatic culmination of daylight across the Sonoran horizon. Composed of crushed orange glass tesserae, the surface gathers and refracts light much like the desert sky at day’s end, when the sun ignites the landscape in deep bands of color. Rather than a quiet fading, sunset in the desert often arrives as a final blaze of brilliance. This work captures that moment when light intensifies before giving way to evening. This contemporary abstract Glass Color Field features Lefranc Bourgeois Flashe paint and layered crushed stained glass on a handmade substrate.