Phoenix, Sun Catcher with Aqua Aura Quartz.
Size: 8" x 4"
$30
Artists: KA & EOAS
To many a Phoenix may represent a new beginning, that no matter how bad (hot) things may get you will get back up on your feet (rise out of the ashes). The Phoenix always rises from its own ashes. It can be a metaphor for always picking yourself up when you are down.
In mythology, the symbolism of the majestic Phoenix bird, which is most often connected with the Sun, dies and is reborn across cultures and throughout time.
The legendary phoenix is a large, grand bird, much like an eagle or peacock. It is brilliantly coloured in reds, purples, and yellows, as it is associated with the rising sun and fire. Sometimes a nimbus will surround it, illuminating it in the sky. Its eyes are blue and shine like sapphires. It builds its own funeral pyre or nest, and ignites it with a single clap of its wings. After death it rises gloriously from the ashes and flies away.
It is made using window glass that was on its way to a landfill. Windows do not have a recycling program because each pane of glass is very different in makeup from the next pane. You cannot mix pieces together unless they are from the same pane. The clean window glass has colour pigments added to it and then placed in a kiln to be heated together so they become one piece.