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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Zenith project is the assignment where you strive to reach the upper limits of your capability as a creative and a Freestyle student, where you attempt to make the most arduous yet fufilling journey to create your best work. This could be a short film, character design, or creating jewlery. I chose to do something I’ve always wanted to do: makign stained glass from scratch. This would mean needing a wide variety of tools and using a large array of skills, but would be very fun to complete. Ever since I visited Europe and saw some of the beautiful handmade pieces there, I wanted to do this, despite the apparent skill and strength of will required. I also decided to do this since my elective is Design, so designing the glass patterns to fit a theme would match my elective’s goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proccess<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The overall process of making stained glass goes from cutting the pieces out, to grinding off excess glass for the pattern, to sticking copper foil ontio the edges of each individual piece, and finally soldering the pieces together into the product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Strife” Pattern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Harmony” Pattern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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All pieces of “Harmony” cut out and pieced together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Harmony” partway through the grinding process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Harmony” After foiling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Harmony” Halfway through soldering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Strife” Sticker pattern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Strife” After grinding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Strife” After foiling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Strife” During soldering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In addition to working on our projects, we created and presented a slideshow about our project to our peers. Below is the recording of my final presentation about this stained glass journey of Harmony and Strife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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