Front to Back Contrast

On a side note, we enjoyed a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with friends recently.  Busy lives and 700 miles have made connecting challenging as lives have evolved and changed, so it was fun to catch up and connect. What a delight to see their children and grandchildren enjoying a vacation together.  The beautiful little girls I knew as pre-schoolers are still best of friends and have helped their own children be close and value family.  They said they have done spring break together for at least 10 years.  All of their children, ranging in age from 7 to 20+, prioritized this week together and were all there.  It was great fun to see our life-long friends surrounded by this loving, high energy family. 

Jelly Nightlight - View from the front  - Clear anchor, freeform stringers, pre-fused buttons, dichroic frit, and cyan fine frit

The picture above and the one below provide a great opportunity to do a compare and contrast on the front and back of one piece.  The piece above allows the tentacles to dominate the space, particularly with the intensity of the darker blue.

Jelly Nightlight - View from the back  - Clear anchor, freeform stringers, pre-fused buttons, dichroic frit, and cyan fine frit

Looking from the back, the tentacles fade into the distance, and the dominate pattern is the mesh-like pattern around all of the clear dots.  Since this is intended to be a nightlight, it will have a lightbulb behind the image.  Because of that lighting source, the image will again change depending on the side of the image that is facing out, or away from the source. 

Jelly Nightlight - View from the back  - Clear anchor, freeform stringers, pre-fused buttons, dichroic frit, and cyan fine frit

With the lighting source outside, shining on the surface, the background is very dominant from the back view.  I think that grid background will be dominant no matter which side is facing out, once the light is behind the glass.

Jelly Nightlight - View from the front  - Clear anchor, freeform stringers, pre-fused buttons, dichroic frit, and cyan fine frit

My hope is that the location of the bulb is not right behind the cap of the jelly so that all you see is lightbullb.  I suppose it would have been helpful to buy a nightlight housing prior to designing the glass that will later attach...........hmmmmm...........as I share earlier - it's all a "work in progress!"