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yes, it's quite big - approx 260 x 500mm. one layer of clear glass then one layer made up of little bits of coloured glass and then another layer of clear on top. Hopefully when I fire I will capture lots of little bubbles - that makes it sparkle in the light. Won't know til it's done, at that size I'm really not confident I will get the result I want but thought it through very carefully adjusting the design to give me the best chance - originally I was going to go a bit 3d with piled glass in the middle to make it look like the lighthouse is more than halfway underwater but then I started thinking about it getting too thick in the middle and the glass spreading when it's liquid, and I thought about giant bubbles getting caught under the fast slumping top sheet. but you know basically I just liked the lighthouse too much to obscure it and I liked the colours so I added a bit of headland and hoped the feel of the design would be carried by the night sky above the sea. and I think it does - it's situational, it's for my back door and when this house was built it was in view of the lighthouse (trees have grown over the view now). And it is topical - the feeling of being late in the day, the lighthouse is becoming submerged but it is still shining brightly.
Now can you ask 13 why he wanted to give the other driver a fright - that's my question! 
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