Judith Schaechter

My involvement with stained glass dates back to whenever it was I got my Lite-Brite toy. Later, I made those melt-in-the- oven suncatchers. I took stained glass as an elective in art school (I was a painting major) and haven't quit yet. Another major reason I stick with stained glass is because I think the raw material is pretty. The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

I think I'm a fairly normal human specimen. My interests are not particular to me and my thoughts about them not necessarily original (until, hopefully, they become stained glass panels!) My main interests are life, love, sex and death, with romance and violence the runners-up. I'm trying to be as cliché, sentimental and decorative as possible - not as a strategy for ironic commentary about sentiment- ality and clichés, but because this is the stuff that, time and time again, I am obsessed with, in love with and that I have faith in.