Friday, January 25, 2013

Wine Bottle Cross

I have always wanted to do an art project with recycled materials.  My son-in-law, Daniel,  helped me perfect the technique of cutting the bottoms off wine bottles.  He used the top part of the bottle to put over candles.  I used the bottom part to make this cross.  I was amazed that wine bottles have so many different diameters.  I built a base for it so it could stand freely.  I like the way the light shines through it when placed in front of a window.  I gave this cross to my parents.  They put it in front of a window in their dining room.  The symbolism is that Christ's first public miracle was changing the water into wine and his last was that he rose from the dead after his crucifixtion on the cross.