Product Details
"Chamber Extenuation - Put Your Best Color On" (collector's alert - 1990!) is a rare and facinating parlor kaleidoscope by woodworking master and scope creator Steven Gray. The piece was made from gorgeous solid Maple Burl and Gabon Ebony woods. Piece features a seperate, small round mirror to reflect light into the object chamber, through its frosted glass background. Light also enters through the left side of the scope barrel, which has a white, translucent glass panel. This is where colorful, interchangeable glass slides fit into a slot, over the white panel, causing the surrounding tunnel area of the visuals to become whichever color slide you've added to the piece. There are ten various transparent glass slides, in a rainbow of different colors, with an additional opaque black slide to block all light from entering the side of the barrel, it also serves as a dust cover to the white side panel. The base of the piece features ten open slots in which the slides are stored when not being used. The barrel itself houses a 2-mirror system which creates absolutely incredible seventeen point, mandala-style, kaleidoscopic imagery. The object chamber contains Steve's handmade lampwork glass pieces. Steve considered this parlor kaleidoscope to be among his absolute best. This incredible 35 year old work of art is super interactive and was very fun to play with as I shot the listing photos.
Piece measures approximately 14.5"T x 11.75"W x 13.25"deep. Signed (Gray & Gray Woodwrights), dated (1990), and numbered (5/25) by the artist.
